Jonathan is an Associate Director at IFS and Head of the Retirement, Savings, and Ageing sector. He is a Co-Principal Investigator of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and a Director of the Pensions Review, a review of the UK pension system and of the future of financial security in retirement. Most of his research focuses on understanding economic activity in later life, pensions, saving for retirement, and their interactions with public policies. He also leads the Deaton Review Country Studies project, which examines labour market and income inequalities in 17 European and North American countries. He is a former editor of the flagship IFS reports on Living Standards, Inequality, and Poverty.
Education
PhD Economics, University College London, 2020
MRes (Distinction) Economics, University College London, 2014
MPhil (Distinction) Economics, University of Cambridge, 2011
BA (1st Class) Economics, University of Cambridge, 2010
Event
17 November 2016 at 15:30<p>8th Floor, One America Square, 17 Crosswall, London, EC3N 2LB</p>
The IFS is launching new research on automatic enrolment into workplace pensions with a response from Richard Harrington MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State responsible for pensions.
This paper exploits the gradual roll-out of the obligation for employers to enrol their employees into a pension to estimate its effect on how much is saved in workplace pensions for private sector employees.
This presentation was given at the launch of the report 'What happens when employers are obliged to nudge? Automatic enrolment and pension saving in the UK'.
This paper studies the first nationwide introduction of automatic enrolment, in which employers in the United Kingdom are obliged to enrol employees into a workplace pension scheme, which employees can then choose to leave if they wish.
We examine the impact of increasing the early retirement age (ERA) for women in a context where the financial incentive to retire at the ERA is very limited.
This briefing note provides an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of the incomes and wealth of different cohorts as they have moved through their lives.
The focus of this report is the distribution of household income in the UK. We assess the changes to average incomes, income inequality and poverty that occurred in the latest year of data (2014–15), and put these in historical context using comparable data spanning the last 50 years.
This report, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, is the fifteenth in an annual series published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). It analyses the HBAI statistics and digs deeper to explore the driving forces behind key trends in living standards, inequality and poverty.
We all know about differences between children from rich, poor and middle-income families. Or at least we think we do. But new research that we have undertaken at the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows that these differences have changed dramatically. In terms of their sources of income and rates of home-ownership, middle-income families look much more like poorer families, and much less like high-income families, than they used to.
Median household income in the UK rose by 3% in 2014–15 after adjusting for inflation. This was the fastest rise in average incomes since the early 2000s, finally taking median income 1% above its previous peak, and was accompanied by income growth right across the distribution. These are the most striking findings from today’s release of the latest official statistics on the distribution of household income by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
