Non-participation in the Employment Retention and Advancement Study: implications on the experimental first year impact estimates - supplementary technical appendix

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Behind the numbers: reassessing investment in skills and training

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

12 October 2023

Retirement is not always a choice that workers can afford to make

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"More of us may feel little choice but to work a year or two longer than planned." Paul Johnson writes for The Times.

6 November 2023

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

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

30 August 2023

Policy analysis

Housing costs and income inequality in the UK

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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

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

17 November 2023

Autumn Statement 2023

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

22 November 2023

Academic research

Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

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We highlight the importance of social skills as a driver for wage growth for UK workers few educational qualifications.

19 September 2023

The role of privately held firms in income inequality

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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

The effects of pension reforms on physician labour supply: Evidence from the English NHS

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We examine labour supply responses of senior doctors following a pension reform that moved NHS staff from a final salary to career average pension.

29 September 2023