Reports

The aim of this report is to provide evidence on the impact of local labour market conditions in general - and the national minimum wage (NMW) in particular - on the education and labour market choices of young people in the UK.

This research, funded by the NAPF with co-funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, looks at the existing levels of saving in defined contribution (DC) pensions on the eve of auto-enrolment.

This study combined a literature review with secondary analysis to draw together good quality evidence on the subject of informal childcare, and to highlight the gaps in that evidence.

This comment piece describes the level of integration between pupils of different backgrounds in Bradford's schools

This Briefing Note gives an overview of the tax and benefit reforms currently planned for the coming financial year and their likely impact on household incomes.

We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of alternative fundraising schemes.

Report commissioned as part of the Centre for Understanding Behaviour Change (CUBEC) at the University of Bristol

The key objective of this study is to assess whether poor households pay systematically higher prices than other households for identical food products.

This report looks at evidence on policies to encourage household saving. The report examines in detail what is known - and what is not known - about the effectiveness of four types of intervention designed to raise saving by households: financial incentives; education; choice architecture; and social marketing.

We provide a number of contributions of policy, practical and methodological interest to the study of the returns to educational qualifications in the presence of misreporting.

We estimate of the impact offshoring inventors has on firms' use of inventors at home using within firm variation across industries.

As Chancellor George Osborne prepares for his keynote statement on fiscal policy and the economy the IFS Green Budget assesses some of the issues he will have to deal with.

Welcome to the second edition of the CAYT digest.

This is a response to the UK Government's consultation on the introduction and implementation of a Patent Box.

This paper was given as part of a session on 'Revealed Preferences: Modeling and Inference' as part of the Econometric Society North American Winter Meeting 2012.

In this paper, we analyse the consequences and determinants of cognitive and non-cognitive (social) skills at age 7, using data for Great Britain from the National Child Development Study. This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, Chicago, January 2012, as part of a session on 'The Impact of Early Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills on Later Outcomes'.

This report examines the prospects for poverty rates and income for different family types up to the year 2015.

In the context of a difficult 2011 labour market, this report examines the early educational and labour market transitions made by young people.

A DfE research brief from the Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT).

This full report consists of 11 chapters covering areas including: VAT exemptions and their economic effects; reduced and zero rates and their distributional, welfare and behavioural consequences; administration and compliance costs; VAT fraud; the operation of VAT in a cross-border context; the impact of the EU VAT system on cross-border trade flows; and the impact of VAT on GDP, consumption and labour markets.