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Minimum wage to be tested against new challenges

21 June 2013

Professor Sir George Bain, who was the first chair of the Low Pay Commission, will oversee a wide-reaching analysis of the wage, sponsored by the Resolution Foundation, the think-tank set up by Clive Cowdery, the insurance entrepreneur. He will be joined in his work, which is set to complete by the beginning of next year, by James Plunkett, the foundation's director of policy and development, Alan Manning, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and Nicola Smith, the head of economic and social affairs for the TUC.

This article was published in The Times on June 21, 2013
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Related publications
Big ideas: The UK's National Minimum Wage, Alan Manning. Article in CentrePiece Volume 14, Issue 2 Autumn 2009
The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment, David H. Autor, Alan Manning and Christopher L. Smith, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1025 November 2010

Related links
Alan Manning webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage