The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government podcastWe speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.25 April 2024
Be the Chancellor Our interactive tool lets you be the Chancellor. Change spending plans, set tax policies and see how your choices impact borrowing and debt.
Should we worry about government debt? podcastDavid Miles joins us to discuss high government debt and its impact on the economy. 11 April 2024
IFS Annual Lecture - Innovation and productivity policies: a budgetary perspective event 15 May 2024 Professor Heidi Williams (Dartmouth College) will deliver the 2024 IFS Annual Lecture on innovation and productivity policies.
Higher Education Access and Funding: challenges and policy options conference 14 May 2024 This one-day academic conference will look at access to and funding of Higher Education systems.
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Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
Do work search requirements work? Evidence from a UK reform targeting single parents Working Paper We assess whether work search requirements for out-of-work welfare claimants are effective in inducing individuals to work & delivering fiscal savings 1 February 2023
Intensive margin labour supply and the dynamic effects of in-work transfers Working Paper How should dynamic considerations affect the design of in-work transfers? 1 February 2023
Benefits and tax credits Report This chapter finds that though benefits reforms pushed more people into work, the work is often part-time, low-paid and with little progression. 1 February 2023
The next few years risk giving us a very unlucky generation of workers Comment "The next worry is for those entering work over the next couple of years... I fear they will be the truly unlucky generation." 30 January 2023
Pandemics, recessions and mental health: young people and jobs in 2023 Podcast We look at the future for young people in the jobs market and how they were affected by the pandemic. 25 January 2023
Are the kids alright? The early careers of education leavers since the COVID-19 pandemic Report We investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the early careers of young people who recently entered the labour market. 11 January 2023
The effect of pension wealth on employment Working Paper This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. 3 January 2023
Job ladder, human capital, and the cost of job loss Working Paper We propose a structural model of the labour market with heterogeneous firms, on-the-job search and accumulation of specific and general human capital. 13 December 2022
We need to understand the diversity of experience across ethnic groups Comment "Understanding the diversity of experience across ethnic groups has never been so important." Paul Johnson writes in the Times on ethnic inequalities. 5 December 2022
Firm heterogeneity and the impact of payroll taxes Working Paper We examine the heterogeneous impact of a large payroll tax cut for older workers in Hungary. 24 November 2022
The gendered division of paid and domestic work under lockdown Journal article This paper provides novel empirical evidence on the effects of the pandemic on the division of labour between parents of school-aged children. 21 November 2022
Public childcare, labor market outcomes of caregivers, and child development: experimental evidence from Brazil Working Paper This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their caregivers. 8 November 2022
Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes Working Paper We study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers using rich administrative data from the Netherlands. 7 November 2022
Is worsening health leading to more older workers quitting work, driving up rates of economic inactivity? Comment We examine labour market trends for older people to see if poorer health is driving down employment rates and causing a rise in economic inactivity 26 October 2022
Nurse staffing and inpatient mortality in the English National Health Service: a retrospective longitudinal study Journal article This journal article examines the impact of nursing team size and composition on inpatient hospital mortality. 27 September 2022
What drives wage stagnation: monopsony or monopoly? Working Paper Wages for the vast majority of workers have stagnated since the 1980s while productivity has grown. 26 September 2022
Market power and wage inequality Working Paper We propose a theory of how market power affects wage inequality. 26 September 2022
Job displacement costs of phasing out coal Working Paper We use the dramatic collapse of the UK coal industry to estimate the long-term impact on displaced miners. 14 September 2022
Which staff members leave the NHS acute sector? Comment Increasing retention of NHS staff is important for achieving policy goals. We examine which staff are most likely to leave the NHS acute sector. 23 August 2022
Factors associated with staff retention in the NHS acute sector Report This report examines how a range of individual staff characteristics are associated with whether individual staff members decide to leave the NHS. 23 August 2022
