Tax options for 1993: the Green Budget

Understand this issue

What does the Conservative's higher education announcement this week mean for apprenticeships and 'low-value' university courses?

explainer

IFS Associate Director Christine Farquharson explains.

1 June 2024

Why are universities in financial trouble?

podcast

Why are universities struggling, what happens if they go bust and what can government do to help? What other challenges do the HE and FE sectors face?

21 August 2024

What has been happening with university finances?

explainer

IFS Associate Director Christine Farquharson explains.

27 June 2024

Policy analysis

How do the last five years measure up on levelling up?

report

How well – or badly – has the UK fared on the 12 levelling up missions? We examine early progress and the scale of the challenge ahead.

19 June 2024

Universal credit: incomes, incentives and the remaining roll-out

report

What has been the impact of universal credit on incomes and work incentives? What challenges remain for the next government?

11 June 2024

The Conservatives and the Economy, 2010–24

working paper

This chapter documents the course of the economy over the last 14 years for the forthcoming book 'The Conservative Effect, 2010-2024'.

3 June 2024

Academic research

Higher Education Access and Funding: challenges and policy options

conference 14 May 2024 at 11:00

This one-day academic conference looked at access to and funding of Higher Education systems.

The impact of labour demand shocks when occupational labour supplies are heterogeneous

working paper

We study the heterogeneous impact of subsequent demand shifts on wages and employment in Germany.

28 June 2024

Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages

working paper

We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US.

15 April 2024