The tax and spending choices facing Andy Burnham podcast<p class="p1">Andy Burnham faces difficult choices over tax, borrowing and public spending. How much room will the new Prime Minister have to act?</p>16 July 2026
Will devolution solve the UK’s economic woes? podcast<p>Could devolution boost UK growth, or would it widen regional divides? We ask what shifting power from Westminster would really mean.</p>9 July 2026
The inequality of 'good jobs' podcast<p>What makes a good job? This episode explores pay, progression, flexibility and why access to better work is unequal.</p>25 June 2026
The state of the justice system event 14 September 2026 <p>This in-person event marks the launch of a major new report bringing together insights from the IFS Transforming Justice programme.</p>
What should we do about high electricity prices in the UK? event 22 September 2026 <p>Join us as IFS researchers explore why UK electricity prices are so high, what is driving costs and what can be done to bring them down.</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>
Jobs landing page<p>At IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We aim to 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.
How do living standards compare across generations? Explainer How have earnings, employment and housing changed for different generations of young adults? 29 July 2026
IFS response to announcements on teacher pay, pensions and school funding Comment This comment provides initial analysis of announcements in July 2026 on teacher pay, pensions and school funding. 1 July 2026
New estimates of the impact of undergraduate degrees on lifetime earnings Report How does going to university affect earnings over people’s lifetimes? How much do individuals and taxpayers benefit from people going to university? 25 June 2026
Are graduates from the top universities choosing finance and tech over the public sector? Comment How has entry into the public sector among graduates from top universities changed following the growth of finance, tech and consulting? 26 May 2026
Why has the NEET rate risen? Understanding trends and drivers using administrative data Report Recent fall in youth employment is approaching the decline seen during COVID and the 2008 financial crisis. 19 May 2026
Assessing the government’s reform to the National Insurance treatment of salary sacrifice pension contributions Report Who would be most affected by the government’s planned reform to the NICs treatment of salary sacrifice pensions and would it improve the tax system? 13 May 2026
Labour market, living standards and poverty trends in Scotland Report Scotland’s child poverty rate is lower than in the rest of the UK – but ambitious 2030 targets are set to be missed 2 April 2026
Labour market, living standards and poverty trends in Wales Report Wales’s employment rate is falling further behind the rest of the UK, posing a challenge for the next Welsh Government 1 April 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
Postpartum depression and the motherhood penalty Working Paper Using Danish administrative data, we study how postpartum mental health shocks shape women’s labor market trajectories. 13 January 2026
Quantile selection in the gender pay gap Working Paper We propose a new approach to estimate selection-corrected quantiles of the gender wage gap. 12 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
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
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
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
Household responses to trade shocks Journal article Journal of International Economics We study the impact of Chinese import competition in the 2000s on workers and their households in England and Wales. 26 September 2025
Who enters the public sector? Comment Over the 2010s those starting their working lives in the public sector became increasingly likely to be highly educated university graduates. 12 September 2025
Levelling down: the distributional consequences of public pay caps Working Paper This paper examines the distributional consequences of capping nominal UK public sector wage growth for workers earning above £21,000 in the 2010s. 31 July 2025
