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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.

    Tom Waters headshot
    Tom Waters

    Associate Director

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

    Tom Wernham
    Tom Wernham

    Senior Research Economist

    Tom's main research areas are living standards and poverty, the benefits system, and its interactions with the labour market.

    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: 17 September 2026).

    Grant

    ESRC Institute for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy 2020-25 Inequality in the twenty first century

    Datasets used

    Family Resources Survey

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