Migration and Low Pay in London Seminar|
Monday 9 June 2014, 2.45 pm (3.00 start) – 6.00 pm
London School of Economics, Room 3.21, OLD Building, Houghton Street
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LSE London has been running a series of workshops and seminars over the past two-years in a HEIF dissemination project covering key aspects of the transformative effects on London of international migration, and migration controls. One of our concerns during these has been with labour market effects, including both those on the supply of high-end skills, and on how the way recent migrants get employed at the bottom end of the London labour market impacts on all those reliant on jobs in this segment.
The aim of this latest seminar (the penultimate one in the series) is to focus on the second of these, in relation to the concerns about low pay in this (expensive) city, expressed recently in both the Resolution Foundation's Review of the (National) Minimum Wage and the Greater London Assembly's Making the London Living Wage the Norm.
The seminar brings together a set of expert speakers, from a range of institutions
and with differing kinds of expertise, on the role/impacts of migrant labour at the
bottom end of the labour market, and on the politics/economics of providing a floor
to real wages, in London's quite particular situation. There will be ample
opportunity for questions and debate.
The seminar will be held on Monday 9 June, from 2.45 to 6.00 p.m. at the LSE in
Room 3.21 on the 3rd floor of the Old Building on Houghton Street. A drinks
reception will follow. The programme is attached here|.
Speakers include:
Kavita Datta & Cathy McIlwaine, Geography, Queen Mary, University of London
Ian Gordon, Geography/SERC, London School of Economics
Conor D'Arcy, Researcher, Resolution Foundation
Sarah Vero, Partnerships Manager, Living Wage Foundation
Stephen Knight, Chair, Economic Committee, Greater London Assembly
Discussion
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