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How to reduce child poverty: compare the policy options
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Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time across different groups.
3 October 2024
How can government reduce child poverty?
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We're exploring why there's been an increase in child poverty since 2010 and options the government has to reduce this.
3 October 2024
Are people saving enough into their pensions?
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Automatic enrolment has been successful in getting more people into workplace pensions, but are they saving enough?
20 September 2024
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event 14 October 2024
At this online event we will offer an opportunity to meet current IFS staff, and ask questions about life at IFS and our recruitment process.
What did Sure Start do for youth offending, children's social care, and school behaviour?
event 23 October 2024
In this online event we will present findings on the effect of Sure Start on a range of outcomes throughout childhood and adolescence.
IFS Zooms In Live: How to make your first Budget a success
event 23 October 2024
Join us for a special in-person recording of an episode of the IFS podcast the week ahead of Rachel Reeves' all-important first Budget.
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Employment and income

Our research on Employment and Incomes looks at trends in employment, wages, skills and the changing nature of work. Topics include the gender pay gap, public sector pay, the rise in self-employment and the effect of the tax and benefit system on labour supply.

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Working Paper

This paper studies how the tax-and-transfer system mitigates income inequalities over the lifetime, which can lead to disparities in living standards.

2 November 2023

Understanding retirement in the UK

Report

We comprehensively examine the changing patterns of retirement in the UK for different groups in society.

1 November 2023

Women in surgery: slow progress for mothers

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Survey evidence published recently showed staggering levels of sexual harassment (and worse) in surgery.

31 October 2023

The minimum wages, turnover, and the shape of the wage distribution

Working Paper

We find that minimum wage hikes don't cause an unusual concentration of job leavers below the new minimum wage, defying neoclassical model prediction.

30 October 2023

Accident-induced absence from work and wage ladders

Working Paper

How do temporary spells of absence from work affect individuals’ labor trajectory? To answer this question, we augment a ‘wage ladder’ model.

25 October 2023

The labor market effects of disability benefit loss

Working Paper

Leveraging age and health cutoffs in the reassessment, the paper estimates employment responses to loss or reduction of benefits.

29 September 2023

Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Working Paper

We highlight the importance of social skills as a driver for wage growth for UK workers with few educational qualifications.

19 September 2023

Big firm, little firm: are differences between companies driving inequality and holding back growth?

Podcast

Debates about inequality often focus on inequalities between people. But what about inequalities between firms?

30 August 2023

Still a man’s world? Gender inequalities, parenthood and the workplace

Podcast

We ask why the gender pay gap opens up, whether things have improved in recent years, and talk about one key factor affecting women’s pay - kids.

23 August 2023

Levelling Up: Is inequality between places Britain’s biggest problem?

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Since 2019, 'levelling up' has been at the forefront of the political agenda - but is inequality between places really Britain’s biggest problem?

16 August 2023

Employment, earnings and incomes in Scotland

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How have employment, earnings and incomes performed in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK? What drives geographic inequalities within Scotland?

9 August 2023