Our vision:
Working people and their families everywhere have a decent standard of living.
The Anker Research Institute is a non-profit organization founded by Richard Anker and Martha Anker in 2021 with the support of the Global Living Wage Coalition. The Institute produces living wage and income benchmarks all around the world, as well as over 100 Anker reference values and subnational living wage and income estimates in a growing number of countries. Also, the ARI produces high quality living wage and living income-related research on gender, migration, prevailing wages etc.
The Institute includes a global network of researchers and research institutions around the world, with the goal of generating knowledge to improve the living standards of working people and their families to a decent level throughout global supply chains.
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What does the
Anker Research Institute do?
The Anker Research Institute was created with the goal of generating knowledge to improve the living standards of working people and their families to a decent level throughout global supply chains. They developed a groundbreakingmethodology for the measurement of a living wage that would provide an internationally comparable living wage and income estimate for a geographic location within a country. Due to the rigorous standards set by the Institute and full transparency of their studies, an Anker Estimate is considered the most credible, widely accepted benchmark available.
The mission of the Institute is to carry out research that informs, influences, and shapes the public debate on wages, livelihoods, and poverty, to promote justice and sustainability in global trade.
With the goal of transparency, the research is disseminated as a free public good.
They engage in and publish additional research with international perspectives on living wages and living incomes, livelihoods, poverty, and the gender gap within wages.
The Institute uses their research to advise standards organizations, companies, NGOs, trade unions, and governments on how to measure prevailing wages, determine whether a living wage is being paid, and close living wage gaps.
The research provides a tool for trade unions and working people everywhere to bargain for and attain higher wages and incomes.
