Reports

Two strategies that governments have to help people on low incomes - providing them with financial support directly, and encouraging them to earn more - generally conflict.

This paper was given as the IFS annual lecture in September 2006.

We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme (SMP) were associated with increased product market competition, as measured by a reduction in average profitability, and with a subsequent increase in innovation intensity and productivity growth for manufacturing sectors.

This Briefing Note analyses the effects of four possible flat tax systems for the UK.

We propose a test of the hypothesis of stochastic monotonicity.

In this paper we test whether poor households use cash transfers from the government to invest in income generating activities.

This note is based on analysis prepared by IFS at the request of the House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee, for their inquiry into Public Expenditure on Education and Skills being carried out during June and July 2006.

The Saving Gateway is a government initiative aimed at encouraging savings behaviour among people who do not usually save.

This study forecasts the prospects for child poverty in 2010/11 and 2020/21 under current government policies, and illustrates the impact of various tax and benefit policies that could be implemented in 2010 and 2020.

This paper shows that net portfolio flows play an important role in correcting external imbalances.

This report analyses the impact of product market reforms, in the form of the EU Single Market Programme, on the extent of product market competition and the subsequent effects of competition on innovation activity and productivity growth.

This briefing note presents results from an application of the IFS dynamic labour supply model developed for the HMT and the DWP.

This is the report from the second phase of a project funded by HM Treasury, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Inland Revenue, and the Economic and Research Social Council under the broad heading Labour Supply Estimation.

This document presents details of the estimation and results from the IFS model of labour market transitions.

This is the bibliography for three reports on labour supply estimation, developed by IFS for HMT and DWP.

This reports looks at pilots for reforms to incapacity benefit.

Much of the recent policy debate surrounding poverty in Britain focuses on income as a measure of living standards. In this report we consider one alternative to income for measuring poverty that has been largely overlooked in the mainstream poverty debate in the UK: namely household expenditure.