The 50p income tax rate: what is known and what will be known?

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Spring Budget 2024: What you need to know

podcast

IFS reaction to the Chancellor's Spring Budget.

7 March 2024

If you can’t see it, you can’t be it: role models influence female junior doctors’ choice of medical specialty

comment

Working alongside a greater share of senior women specialists during an early-career placement influences junior women’s own specialty choice.

24 April 2024

The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government

podcast

We speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.

25 April 2024

Policy analysis

Recent trends in public sector pay

report

How has public sector pay changed in recent years? Which type of workers have done better and which have done worse?

26 March 2024

Progression of nurses within the NHS

report

This report examines the career progression of NHS nurses, how this compares with that of other NHS staff groups and how this has changed over time.

12 April 2024

Regional variation in earnings and the retention of NHS staff in Agenda for Change bands 1 to 4

report

We examine the association between local pay and retention of NHS hospital and community staff in pay bands 1 to 4 of the Agenda for Change framework.

10 April 2024

Academic research

Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages

working paper

We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US.

15 April 2024

Interpreting cohort profiles of lifecycle earnings volatility

working paper

We present new estimates of earnings volatility over time and the lifecycle for men and women by race and human capital.

15 April 2024

There and back again: women’s marginal commuting costs

working paper

We estimate female and male workers’ marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany.

2 April 2024