Pay

This report examines the impact of the changes to the tax and benefit system to be introduced by the UK Government between April 2015 and April 2019 in Wales and compare this to average impacts across the whole UK.

The labour market by itself can create cyclical outcomes, even in the absence of exogenous shocks. The authors propose a theory that shows that the search behaviour of the employed has profound aggregate implications for the unemployed.

This paper analyses the impact of centrally regulated pay on the quality of applicants to be police officers in England and Wales using a unique dataset of individual test scores from the national assessment that is required of all applicants.

There were large cuts to the public workforce over the last parliament during a period of fiscal consolidation. The pace of public workforce cuts is likely to accelerate over the new parliament. This Briefing Note, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), looks at the movement between jobs, or ‘mobility’, of workers in the public and private sectors. It sets out the extent to which reductions in the public workforce to date have been delivered by freezing recruitment of new workers and not replacing workers who move to non-employment, and through more workers moving from the public sector to the private sector than moving in the other direction.

The paper investigates the short run responsiveness of National Health Service (NHS) nurses’ labour supply to changes in wages of NHS nurses relative to wages in outside options available to nurses, utilising the panel data aspect of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

This paper documents the heterogeneity in labor market volatility across ages and gender in the United States over 1976-2014.

We use direct evidence on credit constraints to study their importance for household consumption growth and for welfare.

This paper focuses on individuals who have completed university and provides new evidence on differences in graduates’ earnings by socio-economic background, with a particular focus on whether they attended a private school.

This report focuses on trends in public sector pay and compares these with what has been happening in the private sector.

This article uses individual data on employment and wages to try to understand whether real wage flexibility can help shed light on the UK’s productivity puzzle.