Earnings and the labour market

Understand this issue

Behind the numbers: reassessing investment in skills and training

comment

"There are concrete steps, such as reforming the Apprenticeship Levy, that the government should take to improve the existing skills system."

12 October 2023

Big firm, little firm: are differences between companies driving inequality and holding back growth?

podcast

Debates about inequality often focus on inequalities between people. But what about inequalities between firms?

30 August 2023

Still a man’s world? Gender inequalities, parenthood and the workplace

podcast

We ask why the gender pay gap opens up, whether things have improved in recent years, and talk about one key factor affecting women’s pay - kids.

23 August 2023

Policy analysis

Housing costs and income inequality in the UK

report

This report sheds light on some of the drivers of changes in housing costs over time for different groups.

17 November 2023

Housing costs take up three-and-a-half times as much of the budgets of the poor as of the rich, with significant implications for their standard of living

press release

"It is not possible to understand income poverty or inequality without taking account of housing costs."

17 November 2023

Autumn Statement 2023

collection

All our IFS analysis of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement 2023.

22 November 2023

Academic research

A spouse and a house are all we need? Housing demand, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle

working paper

We use a limited commitment framework to study how changes in marriage value affect household decisions over the lifecycle.

6 November 2023

The labor market effects of disability benefit loss

working paper

Leveraging age and health cutoffs in the reassessment, the paper estimates employment responses to loss or reduction of benefits.

29 September 2023

The role of privately held firms in income inequality

working paper

We study the role of privately held firms in income inequality in Finland, especially looking at the the role of retained earnings.

29 November 2023