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Daily Express:
Recession threat to families

29 October 2008

In their study The Changing Pattern of Earnings: Employees, Migrants And Low-Paid Families, researchers analysed the earnings of a random sample of 1% of the British population over 30 years. They found the gap between rich and poor was finally shrinking after two decades of rising inequality. But this could be threatened by recession if unemployment hits the most disadvantaged in society, researchers said. Co-author Abigail McKnight, of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics (LSE) said the experience of past recessions would suggest the current financial crisis could hit wage mobility.

This article appeared in the Daily Express on the 29th October 2008.
Link to article.

Link to report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, The Changing Pattern of Earnings: Employees, Migrants and Low-Paid Families by Richard Dickens and Abigail McKnight.

Related Links
Richard Dickens webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage