How can we further quantify the impacts of planned changes to employment law on raising living standards across the UK, as measured by real household disposable income?

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The department wants to build the evidence base for the impacts that jobs with higher pay, better working conditions and security can have on employees and the knock-on impacts on society as a whole.

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