What would it take to fix social care? podcast<p class="p1">How does social care work, why has reform proved so difficult, and what would it take to build a fairer and more sustainable system?</p>17 September 2026
Land value tax: the perfect tax? podcast<p>Unlike most taxes, land value tax doesn’t discourage people from working, investing or building. So why don’t we use it more?</p>7 September 2026
How to fix business rates podcast<p class="p1">Business rates are blamed for killing the high street. But would cutting them actually help shops and pubs - or simply make landlords richer?</p>27 August 2026
Sharing income tax revenues with England’s mayors: the issues and options event 2 October 2026 <p>This online event will explain the rationale, risks and design choices behind assigning England's mayoral authorities a share of local income tax.</p>
IFS Annual Lecture: Are Ideas Harder to Find, Overall? event 12 October 2026 <p><span data-teams="true">Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion will deliver the 2026 IFS Annual Lecture.</span></p>
IFS Green Budget 2026 event 14 October 2026 <p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(37, 61, 64);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"DM Serif Text", serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">The IFS Green Budget will assess the state of the UK economy and the government’s fiscal position ahead of the Autumn Budget.</span></p>
Jobs landing page<p>At IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We foster a respectful and inclusive working environment.</p>20 July 2022
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
Who enters the public sector? Working Paper The probability of entering the public sector rises with education, and this paper documents that this educational gradient has strengthened. 5 March 2026
Worker-firm matching across places Comment This comment explores how young workers are matched to firms in local labour markets in England, using the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset 4 March 2026
Wages, pay growth and employer concentration in the labour market for lower-paid NHS staff Data Item The NHS sets pay scales at a national level but competes for staff in labour markets that vary significantly across the country. 3 February 2026
Is the minimum wage costing jobs? Podcast The UK minimum wage has increased by more than 70% in real terms since 1999. What’s it doing to jobs, prices and profits - and what happens next? 29 January 2026
Unemployment, benefits and household spending: new evidence from UK bank account data Report How much protection does the benefit system afford the newly unemployed? We use UK bank account data to track financial impacts of job loss. 9 January 2026
The menopause "penalty" Working Paper We show that a menopause diagnosis leads to lasting drops in earnings and employment, alongside greater reliance on social transfers. 6 January 2026
Do supermarket openings reduce care home staffing? Comment The adult social care sector in England faces long-standing and well-documented workforce challenges. 15 December 2025
Health, wealth and employment in the run-up to state pension age Report How has health among those in their late 50s and early 60s changed over time, and how are these trends associated with wealth and employment? 19 November 2025
Why has in-work poverty risen? Comment We study the reasons for rising in-work poverty in the 25 years up to the pandemic. 12 November 2025
Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? Experimental evidence from North Macedonia Journal article Journal of Development Economics This study experimentally assesses the effects of temporary wage subsidies on employment in North Macedonia. 5 November 2025
Why has in-work poverty risen in Britain? Journal article Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics In Britain, the headline relative in-work poverty rate steadily rose from 13.4% in 1994–95 to 18.4% in 2019–20. We study the drivers of this increase. 31 October 2025
New trends in self-employment and top incomes Report Official figures have mismeasured self-employment and top incomes for decades. We present new data that fill the gap in the statistical record. 29 October 2025
Parental leave and intimate partner violence Working Paper We examine the impact of a 2002 Danish parental leave reform on intimate partner violence (IPV) using data on assault-related hospital contacts. 9 October 2025
Labor market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages Journal article American Economic Journal: Applied Economics We provide new estimates of how the gender wage gap in the US varies over the working life for cohorts of workers born between the 1920s and 1990s. 6 October 2025
Support for children with disabilities and special educational needs Report How do trends, demographics and outcomes of children receiving support for health conditions compare across the benefits and education systems? 3 October 2025
The dynamic effects of health on the employment of older workers: impacts by gender, country, and race Working Paper We estimate the impact of health on employment for individuals close to retirement age and run the model separately by race and gender. 30 September 2025
A response to government announcement of work placements for young people on long-term benefits Comment An assessment of the government’s plan to guarantee work placements for long-term unemployed young people. 29 September 2025
Fathers taking leave: evaluating the impact of shared parental leave in the United Kingdom Journal article We study the effect of the introduction of the UK Shared Parental Leave policy in 2015 on both the uptake and the length of leave taken by fathers. 24 September 2025
How do you identify a good manager? Working Paper We causally identify managerial contributions by randomly assigning managers to multiple teams and controlling for differences in individual skill. 23 September 2025
Exploring ethnicity through national datasets Conference 19 September 2025 This webinar was organised by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) under the auspices of the Data Resources Training Network.