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Low Pay Commission research 2020
This page contains the research reports commissioned by the Low Pay Commission to inform our 2020 Report.
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Alongside our annual report, we publish the research projects commissioned by the Low Pay Commission and which informed our recommendations in our 2020 Report. These projects investigate the effects of the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) on a range of outcomes and topics.
The reports we are publishing today are:
- A project by the University of Warwick using qualitative interviews to examine the way in which employers set pay for apprentices.
- Two projects by Frontier Economics: one looking at the impacts of the NLW on levels of employment, productivity, survival rates and prices; and another estimating the effect of the minimum wage on consumer prices in more depth.
- A report from Incomes Data Research sharing insights from 22 case studies of employers affected by the minimum wage including how they intend to cope with future changes in the age of eligibility for the NLW.
- A report by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) on the extent to which firms’ responses to the NLW vary by their opportunity to substitute capital and technology for labour.
- A report by Silvia Avram (University of Essex) and Susan Harkness (University of Bristol) looking at the impact of the NLW on progression out of minimum wage jobs.
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Published 9 December 2020Last updated 10 December 2020 + show all updates
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Page updated with an additional research report - Avram and Harkness on the NLW's impact on progression.
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