The gender wage gap

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Professor Sir Richard Blundell to give the Marshall Paley Lecture on inequalities

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Professor Sir Richard Blundell will give the lecture on the first phase of the IFS Deaton Review, recently published by Oxford University Press.

27 September 2024

Minimum wages in the UK – how high can they go?

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In the UK today, earnings inequality is substantially higher than it used to be.

30 October 2024

Is Labour's inheritance really worse than expected?

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We assess the Chancellor's statement on Monday about the state of the public finances.

30 July 2024

Policy analysis

Employment rates by local authority, year to June 2024

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Almost a third of local authorities in Great Britain already have employment rates of 80%, one in six have employment rates below 70%.

12 December 2024

Employment rates of 15–64-year-olds in OECD countries, 2016 to 2023

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There is a sizeable gap between the UK’s employment rate of 75% and the top four countries who have achieved an 80% employment rate.

12 December 2024

Employment rates in the UK and the four frontier countries, by age and gender, 2005 to 2023

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The employment rate gaps for 15-24-year-olds and 55-64-year-olds together explain three quarters of the difference in employment rates between the UK.

12 December 2024

Academic research

Wage effects of means-tested transfers: Incidence implications of using firms as intermediaries

working paper

We show that how countries disburse tax credits matters for economic incidence by exploiting reform to the disbursement of child benefits in Argentina

22 October 2024

Household responses to trade shocks

working paper

We study the impact of Chinese import competition in the 2000s on workers and their households in England and Wales.

12 November 2024

Hidden redistribution in lifetime earnings: the role of differential mortality

working paper

Life expectancy gaps between gender and income groups are large and generate notable implicit redistribution in lifetime earnings via pension systems.

9 October 2024