Real wages and living standards have taken a hard hit in the UK in the recent past. Real wages of the typical (median …) UK worker have fallen by almost 10% since 2008 and median family incomes have significantly fallen for working age …

Although the economic recovery in the UK has been disappointing, it is inappropriate to either assert that Japan's two … lost decades illustrate the ineffectiveness of stimulative monetary policy or that the UK is predestined to perform as … badly as Japan. Recall that the UK has, so far, avoided the deflation that held back the Japanese economy. One could …

the UK, chosen for theirdistinctive legal and institutional arrangements, within a common European Union context. Itis … information provision, the law and institutions complementone another less; in the UK, there are contradictory approaches and new …

The researchers note that there have been historically unprecedented falls in UK real wages since the start of the … States in 2013 were at about the same level as in 1979) might be viewed as a warning sign for the UK. …

market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about adverse consequences of rising … much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average. Immigrants, especially in recent years, tend to be younger and … better educated than the UK-born and less likely to be unemployed. Future migration trends will, as ever, depend on relative …