Robert Joyce

Robert is Deputy Director at the IFS. His research focuses primarily on the labour market, the drivers of income and wealth inequalities, and the design of the welfare system. Currently this includes work examining the impacts on jobs and pay of rises in the minimum wage, the short and long term effects of the universal credit reform to working-age benefits, and the impacts of changes in the demand for different skills on the prospects of different workers. 

Robert is a member of the Expert Panel currently leading "The Deaton Review: Inequalities in the Twenty First Century". He directed the Income, Work and Welfare sector at IFS for several years, has sat on the Social Metrics Commission, and is a former editor of IFS' two flagship annual publications, "The IFS Green Budget" and "Living Standards, Poverty and Inequality in the UK".