Any Job, Better Job, Career

Summary

Where it came from, what fifteen years of evidence tells us, and why we now need to move beyond it.

Any job, better job, career is the front-line shorthand that grew up around Universal Credit and in-work progression. This note traces it back to the low-pay, no-pay research it was built to answer, through the one randomised trial that was meant to prove it, to the employer interviews that explain why it cannot work as promised.