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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

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: 8 December 2023).

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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