Inequality

Methodological, practical, and institutional commonalities and differences between TaxDev, SOUTHMOD, and CEQ tools for distributional analysis.

What makes a good job? This episode explores pay, progression, flexibility and why access to better work is unequal.

We ask why the UK has such large regional divides, how they emerged, and what policymakers can realistically do to fix them.

Why do people care about inequality, and what do they want government to do about it?

We set out the facts on UK inequality, from income and wealth to opportunity, health and place.

This in-person event, in partnership with and hosted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, will discuss the findings of the IFS-Deaton Review

The IFS-Deaton Review’s final workshop, where we explored the review's findings and their policy implications in the UK context.

We summarise the breadth of inequalities in the UK, their interconnected nature, and why policymakers need to carefully navigate trade-offs.  

But any strategy for boosting the economy that ignores the social consequences is dangerous

Drawing on the IFS Deaton Review of inequalities, this report sets out a policy toolkit and applications to education, jobs, geography and wealth.

We examine the effect of the UK’s ‘Help to Buy’ schemes on housing affordability using a new approach to uncover effects for different households.

How is wealth distributed and how has this changed over time? We use a consistent methodology for valuing pension wealth to answer these questions.

Scotland’s child poverty rate is lower than in the rest of the UK – but ambitious 2030 targets are set to be missed

Wales’s employment rate is falling further behind the rest of the UK, posing a challenge for the next Welsh Government

DWP’s improved methodology reduces official measures of income poverty, but we cannot yet conclude that new statistics are closer to ‘true’ poverty.