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Duncan Innes

FactCheck Q&A: Minimum wage v Living Wage | The FactCheck Blog - 0 views

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    What is a living wage
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Minimum Wage in Europe - Google Public Data Explorer - 0 views

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    Comparisons of minimum wage across europe
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Firms should get tax breaks to pay living wage, says Ed Miliband | Money | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    How labour would like to help the squeezed middle
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UK incomes fall 3.5% in real terms, ONS reveals | Money | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • The median salary for a full-time worker in the UK rose 1.4% in 2011 to £26,244, against a headline CPI inflation rate of 5% or higher
  • Progress in closing the gender pay gap has also slowed, with women in full-time employment earning on average £5,409 less than men – the gap narrowed by £179 in 2010 compared with £558 in 2009.
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    Real wages are falling by 3.5% a year
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Bank of England's Mervyn King: This is the biggest squeeze on families since 1920s | Ma... - 0 views

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    Daily Mail alarmist but accessible assessment of the macro economic picture in early 2011
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Cuba cuts 500,000 state workers | World news | Guardian Weekly - 0 views

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    Cuba is creating a private sector and making 500,000 state workers redundant
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Public-sector workers: (Government) workers of the world unite! | The Economist - 0 views

  • Unions have suppressed wage differentials in the public sector. They have extracted excellent benefits for their members. And they have protected underperforming workers from being sacked.
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    Interesting article proclaiming that the public sector unions have made the state inefficient
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History suggests 2011 will be a year of living frugally | Business | The Guardian - 0 views

  • In the first half of 2010, the story was that the big emerging economies – India, China and Brazil – were acting as the locomotive for global growth. But during the second half of 2010, there were signs of the United States and Germany joining the party
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    The Economy unlike Spurs dislikes years ending in 1. Insightful analysis on threats and opportunities in the economy or 2011.
Duncan Innes

Pay gap widening to Victorian levels | Money | The Guardian - 1 views

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    Analysis of the widening pay gap in the UK
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