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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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    Universal credit and work incentives

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    This presentation was given at the launch of an OECD report ‘Connecting people with jobs: activation policies in the UK’ held at the Work Foundation, London, on 15 July 2014.

    15 July 2014

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    How responsive is the labor market to tax policy?

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    The key to extending employment and earnings is to focus policy on improving the flows into work for people leaving school and for mothers with young children, and on expanding work among people in their 50s and 60s.

    26 May 2014

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    Dealing with randomisation bias in a social experiment: the case of ERA

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    In this paper we set out a theoretical framework for the systematic consideration of “randomisation bias”, and provide what is to our knowledge the first empirical evidence on this form of bias in an actual social experiment, the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) study.

    23 May 2014

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    Income dynamics and life-cycle inequality: mechanisms and controversies

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    This study focuses on the transmission of inequality over the working life. A model of constrained intertemporal choice is used to provide structure to the distributional dynamics of wages, earnings, income and consumption. The mechanisms used to insure labour market shocks are examined in a partial-insurance setting where the manner and scope for insurance depends on the access to credit, the information available to consumers and the durability of income shocks. Drawing on recent research, family labour supply, the credit market and the tax system are all shown to play a key role. These mechanisms vary in importance across different points of the life cycle and the business cycle.

    5 May 2014

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    Labour supply and taxation with restricted choices

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    A model of labour supply is developed in which individuals face restrictions on hours choices. Observed hours reflect both the distribution of preferences and the distribution of offers.

    14 March 2014

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    The public sector workforce: past, present and future

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    In this briefing note, we combine various data sources to provide for the first time a consistent picture on how the size and composition of the public sector workforce has changed over the past 50 years.

    14 February 2014

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    Labour Supply and Taxes

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    This presentation was given at the IFS Public Economic Lectures on 16 December 2013 in London.

    3 February 2014

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    Hard choices ahead for government cutting public sector employment and pay

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    Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts for public sector pay and employment suggest continuing cuts to public employment and large squeezes in pay relative to the private sector. Our analysis suggests that public sector pay relative to private sector pay will now return to its pre crisis level in 2013-14, two years earlier than implied by past forecasts. Forecast squeezes to public sector pay up to 2018-19 would further reduce the public-private pay gap below levels last seen in the early 2000s, when parts of the public sector had difficulties recruiting and retaining staff.

    12 December 2013