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Appropriately defining and targeting ‘bad jobs’ as a pathway to ‘good jobs' - Blog by Sangwoo Lee
The new Labour Government is on a mission to grow the economy, with its primary aim focused on promoting fairness in employment, eradicating pay insecurity and offering more flexible working conditions. All of these objectives are tied to improving working conditions. As highlighted in a body of literature, including a recent study by the Institute for Employment Research (IER), good jobs with better job quality benefit both individual workers and society as a whole by boosting innovation, increasing productivity and improving individual wellbeing. The creation of more good jobs would support the Government's efforts to stimulate economic growth and generate the tax revenues necessary for public infrastructure investment, such as schools and hospitals. But what is the path towards creating more ‘good jobs’? How can we make meaningful progress in achieving better job quality?
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New Alumni Blog: How not to be a lawyer
Jack Cane, who studied on our Law 3 year LLB degree from 2016-2019, has written our latest Warwick Law Careers Blog, ‘How not to be a lawyer - a career in lawtech.’ Jack, who now works as a LawtechUK Executive, writes about an alternative career in law and his experience of navigating the job market during the pandemic.
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