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
16 July 2015 at 11:00<p>Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT</p>
On Thursday 16 July, the IFS will publish its detailed annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The Department for Work and Pensions has published its annual statistics on the distribution of household income in the UK. This latest release covers the years up to and including 2013–14. In this Observation, we briefly outline some of the key information contained in the DWP publication.
There were large cuts to the public workforce over the last parliament during a period of fiscal consolidation. The pace of public workforce cuts is likely to accelerate over the new parliament. This Briefing Note, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), looks at the movement between jobs, or ‘mobility’, of workers in the public and private sectors. It sets out the extent to which reductions in the public workforce to date have been delivered by freezing recruitment of new workers and not replacing workers who move to non-employment, and through more workers moving from the public sector to the private sector than moving in the other direction.
This report explores the link between reading skills at age 10 and a range of outcomes later in life, including employment status, earnings and self-reported health status. It also investigates whether reading skills have greater benefits for children growing up in poor families.
Reforms to the NHS and the Teachers’ Pension Schemes are coming into effect tomorrow, 1 April, changing radically how pensions for members of these schemes are calculated. This Observation discusses which groups will lose most from these changes and highlights the fact that, despite these reforms, public service pensions remain much more generous on average than those available to most private sector employees.
Event
4 February 2015 at 10:00<p>Dean's Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ</p>
The IFS Green Budget 2015 will analyse the issues and challenges facing Chancellor George Osborne as he prepares for his final Budget of this parliament.
In this briefing note, we estimate the value of employer-provided pensions and compare their value between public and private sector workers, and over time. We then assess what effect the incorporation of the value of workplace pensions has on the estimated differential between remuneration in the public and private sectors when measured just using pay. We also document how this changes over time and how it varies across different groups of the population.
