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Richard Exell

Website Richard writes for Left Foot Forward on labour markets; he is the TUC’s senior policy officer, covering social security, tax credits and labour market issues - including the debates about the European social model and labour market flexibility.

Jobs or pay – we still haven’t got the hang of delivering on both

Richard Exell
11 November, 2015

There are good reasons to worry that stalling earnings may stifle household demand

The jobs recovery is still too finely balanced to call

Richard Exell
12 August, 2015

We should be cautious about seeing a labour market trend from a month or two of bad figures

The jobs figures: even if it’s a blip, it’s a worrying one

Richard Exell
15 July, 2015

As the prime minister boasted about the coalition’s jobs record, the reality was heading in the opposite direction

Labour market: Britain’s jobs success is vulnerable to further austerity

Richard Exell
13 May, 2015

Real earnings are increasing but are too dependent on low inflation

Decent in-work benefits are crucial for reducing child poverty

Richard Exell
9 March, 2015

Annual cuts to key benefits will take £17.9bn a year from working families by 2016/17

Labour market: Young people are the furthest from benefiting from this recovery

Richard Exell
18 February, 2015

And getting back to pre-recession wages is going to take an awfully long time

Unemployment figures: prospects for living standards still poor as earnings growth remains slow

Richard Exell
21 January, 2015

But the quality of jobs is improving

Good news on the jobs front, but pay is definitely not recovering

Richard Exell
15 October, 2014

We’re going down an uncertain path, with serious threats for working people.

Three reasons pay might be falling

Richard Exell
16 July, 2014

Good unemployment figures but stagnant pay have been the story about each month’s jobs figures for a year now.

Unemployment figures: London continues to pull away from the rest of the country

Richard Exell
11 June, 2014

In the last two years, the number in employment in London has gone up by 312,000 – much higher than any other region.

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