Reports

This report is evidence submitted to the Institute for Public Policy Research in response to a call for evidence on the 'future of globalisation'.

The UK recently experienced its deepest recession since the Second World War, during which GDP fell by over 6 per cent between the first quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009. We would naturally expect these falls in national income to have consequences for UK households' living standards. In this chapter, we examine how earnings, employment and household incomes evolved immediately before, during and after the Great Recession in the UK.

In this short note, we examine the incentives that systems for financing special educational needs can create for different individuals.

This paper looks at how to design policy on informal labour markets.

This analysis finds that the shape of the state today is very different from that of 30 years ago and, going forward, spending on health, pensions and long term care is set to rise fast.

Children born to married parents achieve better cognitive and social outcomes, on average. This report asks why this is so.

This document is a literature review commissioned by the Department for Education into the role for, and implications of, payment by results in public service delivery.

In this paper, we show some simple ways in which the government could examine the impact of tax and benefit reforms on men and women using household level data that it already has available.

This Commentary analyses recent trends in household spending, with a focus on domestic fuel and water, and examines the impact of changes in the price of these goods on household inflation.

This review is aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the key characteristics of what works in terms of early interventions to prevent or reduce youth crime or anti-social behaviour.

Four distinct pieces of analysis to help us better understand young people's early interactions with the labour market.

This is the full report of the independent evaluation of the ECaR programme.

In this Commentary, we assess the changes to average incomes, inequality and poverty that have occurred since 1997, with a particular focus on the changes that have occurred in the latest year of data (2009-10).

We develop an empirical search-matching model with productivity shocks so as to analyze policy interventions in a labour market with heterogeneous agents.

This study aims to estimate the impact of the 2008 Chilean pension reform on Chilean labour market participation.

This paper compares partial and general equilibrium eects of alternative education policies on the distribution of education and earnings.

FINISH - Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health - is a joint undertaking of a wide range of actors that came together to address the challenges of micro finance, insurance and sanitation and health.

This note provides projections of relative and absolute income poverty among children and working-age adults in the UK for each year between 2010-11 and 2013-14.