Education and skills

Proving a framework for the analysis of the relationship between aggregate and individual wages.

This paper uses two sets of cross-country micro datasets to analyse individuals participation in voluntary and community activities and organisations.

Investigating the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution.

This paper examines the role of international trade in the reallocation of U.S. manufacturing activity within and across industries from 1977 to 1997.

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia onthe wage distribution.

In this commentary, IFS compares the reforms proposed by the two parties, looking at the effect on student and graduate finances, the distributional impact on households with different incomes, and the cost to the Exchequer and taxpayers in general.

We have compiled a non-technical and relatively brief policy summary of an extensive CEE research programme which has focused on the relative value of different academic and vocational qualifications in the British labour market, how this value differs for different subgroups of the population and how this value has changed over time.

Measurement errors in survey data on hourly pay may lead to serious upward bias in low pay

This article uses factor models to identify and estimate the distributions of counterfactuals.

This paper evaluates the effects of a mjor educational reform in Sweden.

In the previous edition, we argued that governments might care about child poverty for reasons of equity and efficiency, and we introduced the concept of an equivalence scale as a way to help compare well-being across different sorts of households.

This briefing note is provided as evidence to the Work and Pensions Select Committee as to whether childcare could be provided for all parents who need it to help them to work. It looks at the ways in which this could be achieved.

The current Labour Government wants to reduce the level of child poverty in this country.

The Education Maintenance Allowance: Third Year Report

Forthcoming

This commentary describes the changes to the structure of child-contingent support through the tax and benefit system since 1975. It also presents new results, which were produced to quantify explicitly the amount of government support for families with children, using representative samples of families from over the past three decades. With these data, it is possible to examine whether child-contingent support has become more or less progressive, or more or less slanted towards large families, lone-parents families or families with young children.