The Underemployed: Evidence From the UK Labour Force Survey for a Conditionally Gendered Top-down Model

This article examines the theoretical underpinning of living wage campaigns. The article uses evidence, derived from the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey from 2005 to 2008, to examine the extent to which a living wage will address low pay within the labour force. We highlight the greater incidence of low pay within the private sector and then focus upon the public sector where the living wage demand has had most impact. The article builds upon the results from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey with analysis of the British Household Panel Survey in 2007 in order to examine the impact that the introduction of a living wage, within the public sector, would have in reducing household inequality.

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Have British Jews fully assimilated in the UK Labour Market?

International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences ◽

10.17583/rimcis.2015.1490 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 121

Author(s):

Nabil Khattab

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Financial Services ◽

Service Sector ◽

Labour Force ◽

Occupational Attainment ◽

Main Stream ◽

Labour Force Survey ◽

Self Employment ◽

Majority Group ◽

The Uk

<p class="pagecontents"><span lang="EN-GB">This paper analyses the patterns of occupational attainment and earnings among the Jewish community in Britain using UK Labour Force Survey data (2002-2010). The findings suggest that although British-Jews cannot be distinguished from the majority main stream population of British-White in terms of their overall occupational attainment and earnings, it seems that they have managed to integrate through patterns of self-employment and concentration in the service sector economy, particularly in banking and financial services. It is argued that this self-employment profile is a Jewish strategy used to minimise dependency on majority group employers and by doing so to helping to escape any religious penalties.</span></p>

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The Measurement of Low Pay in the UK Labour Force Survey*

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics ◽

10.1111/1468-0084.64.s.5 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 64 (supplement) ◽

pp. 653-676 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Chris Skinner ◽

Nigel Stuttard ◽

Gabriele Beissel-Durrant ◽

James Jenkins

Keyword(s):

Labour Force ◽

Labour Force Survey ◽

The Uk ◽

Low Pay

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Evaluating the Labour Market Integration of New Immigrants in the UK

Social Policy and Society ◽

10.1017/s1474746417000239 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 645-658 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Tommaso Frattini

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Market Integration ◽

Labour Force ◽

Labour Force Survey ◽

The European Union ◽

Labour Market Integration ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

New Immigrants ◽

Education Levels ◽

The Uk

This article analyses the labour market integration of newly arrived immigrants in the UK labour market, based on data from the UK Labour Force Survey. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the United Kingdom since 2000 and distinguish different cohorts based on the year of their arrival in the country. We examine the extent to which these new arrivals were able to enter work and move up into skilled jobs, and analyse the sectors of the economy that have proved most amenable to this progression. The analysis indicates that these new arrivals fared relatively well in the workforce. In part as a result of their relative youth and high education levels, many new arrivals (especially those from the European Union and in particular the EU10 countries) moved straight into work.

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