Paul Gregg is a British academic, and expert on labour markets and

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. He is currently a Commissioner on the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.

Academic career

Paul Gregg is Professor of Economic and Social Policy at the

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and Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the Centre for Economic Performance at the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...

. He is a programme director at the Centre for Market and Public Organisation at the

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covering Families, Children and Welfare, and former Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol, and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy at the University of Bath. He is a member of the Governing Board of the New UK Birth Cohort Study, and is affiliated to the Centre for Economic Performance at

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. He has published widely on employment and household issues, and is joint editor of “The labour market in winter: the state of working Britain 2010” (Oxford:

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, 2011). He was appointed

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in the

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for services to children and social mobility.

Welfare reform

From 1997-2006, he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors at HM Treasury, where he worked on unemployment, welfare reform and

child poverty Child poverty refers to the state of children living in poverty and applies to children from poor families and orphans being raised with limited or no state resources. UNICEF estimates that 356 million children live in extreme poverty. It is esti ...

. He was appointed to a CBI steering group on Getting the UK Working, and a commission on youth unemployment run by AVECO and headed by

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. He was a member of the London Child Poverty Commission 2006-2010. In 2009, Professor Gregg completed a review of 'Personalised Support and Conditionality in the Welfare System' for the

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. This helped the government to draw up plans to require many

Incapacity Benefit Incapacity Benefit was a British social security benefit that was paid to people facing extra barriers to work because of their long-term illness or their disability. It replaced Invalidity Benefit in 1995. The government began to phase out Inc ...

recipients to participate in work-related activity - but not work itself - as a condition of receiving their benefit. Having helped in the design of Employment Support Allowance (ESA), Professor Gregg has since criticised the tests for fitness for work - the

Work Capability Assessment The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) is used by the British Government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to decide whether and to what extent welfare benefit claimants are capable of doing work or work-related activities. The outcome of t ...

- that is a key part of its implementation. In July 2012, Professor Gregg featured on the

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programme titled 'Disabled or Faking It?' Professor Paul Gregg discusses employment support on BBC Panorama

References

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