Summary
Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies explores what the world of work can tells us about inequality and why some towns and cities feel left behind. He finds England is one of the most regionally unequal economies in the developed world.
He looks at the differences in wages and opportunities across the county and seeks to understand why this has created areas where people struggle to find well paid work.
This edition of the programme includes interviews with: Professor Steve Machin - The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics Helen Barnard - Joseph Rowntree Foundation Tom Forth - Open Data Institute Leeds Henry Overman - Director, The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth James Bloodworth - Author "Hired - Six months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain" Richard Hagan - MD, Crystal Doors Tony Lloyd MP for Rochdale Jade & Billy - workers
Producer - Smita Patel Editor - Jasper Corbett
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| 0:41.0 | Hello, thanks for listening to this edition of Analysis. podcasts. Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the presenter of this edition. |
| 0:54.0 | Over the next half hour, I'm going to be exploring what the world of work can tell us about |
| 0:58.8 | inequality and why some towns and cities in England feel left behind. |
| 1:05.0 | In the world of work, the last decade has been both a triumph and a disaster. |
| 1:12.0 | A triumph because so many more jobs have been created that record numbers of |
| 1:16.5 | people are in work. A disaster because levels of pay have not risen at all. The |
| 1:22.3 | first time that's happened over a decade in well |
| 1:25.1 | over a hundred years. Perhaps it's this stagnation in wages which has brought |
| 1:30.0 | the inequalities in our labour market into sharper focus and in particular |
| 1:35.1 | inequalities between those parts of the country that are doing relatively well |
| 1:39.0 | and those that are feeling increasingly left behind. |
| 1:42.9 | We will be bringing four proposals to transform this country |
| 1:45.8 | with better infrastructure, better education, better technology. |
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