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This presentation to the Royal Society of Edinburgh provides an early preview of upcoming work on labour market trends and inequalities in Scotland.

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This presentation, delivered by IFS researchers David Phillips and Tom Wernham at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, provides an early preview of upcoming work on labour market trends and inequalities in Scotland, looking both across households and local authority areas in Scotland. It discusses the implications for policy, and looks in particular at devolved tax and benefit policy.

    Authors

    David Phillips
    David Phillips

    Associate Director

    David is Head of Devolved and Local Government Finance. He also works on tax in developing countries as part of our TaxDev centre.

    Thomas Wernham
    Tom Wernham

    Research Economist

    Tom is a Research Economist in the Income, Work and Welfare sector, having joined the IFS in 2020.

    Tom Waters
    Tom Waters

    Associate Director

    Tom is an Associate Director at the IFS and Head of the Income, Work and Welfare sector.

    Presentation details

    DOI
    10.1920/ps.ifs.2023.0011
    Publisher
    Institute for Fiscal Studies

    Suggested citation

    D, Phillips and T, Waters and T, Wernham. (2023). 'Earnings and income inequality in Scotland' [Presentation]. London: Institute for Fiscal Studies. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/earnings-and-income-inequality-scotland (accessed: 26 March 2025).

    Grant

    ESRC Institute for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy Inequality in the twenty first century

    Datasets used

    Family Resources Survey (End User Licence version)

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