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The Autumn Statement explained
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We analyse the Chancellor's 2023 Autumn Statement.
24 November 2023
The Autumn Statement 2023 explained in 90 seconds
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Paul Johnson responds to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement.
22 November 2023
Cake or biscuit? The UK's byzantine VAT system explained
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This week, we dive into the oddities of the VAT system.
16 November 2023
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Education spending: an engine for levelling-up?
event 11 December 2023
The launch of the 2023 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Social mobility and wealth
conference 12 December 2023
At this in-person event, IFS researchers will share findings from ESRC-funded research on social mobility and its drivers.
Where next for the state pension?
event 13 December 2023
At this online event, IFS researchers will present findings from a major new report on the future of the state pension in the UK.
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Poverty, inequality and social mobility

Our research looks at inequalities in living standards, education, health and other outcomes. We study the role of labour market outcomes, taxes and benefits, and structural forces like globalisation in shaping trends in poverty, inequality and social mobility.

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Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data

Working Paper

This report shows that it is possible to use time-use data to estimate resource sharing in households via linear regression.

8 September 2023

Intergenerational mobility in the UK

Report

Your parents’ income and wealth is of ever-growing importance in determining your own position in the lifetime income distribution.

7 September 2023

Taxing high-net-worth individuals: experience from Indonesia

Journal article

The article is a response to Gabriel Zucman's paper 'Globalisation, taxation and inequality'.

7 September 2023

Is it time to reboot welfare economics? Overview

Journal article

The articles in this Fiscal Studies symposium engage with the question of how to revive normative questions as a central issue in economic scholarship

5 September 2023

Globalisation, taxation and inequality

Journal article

This article reviews some of the challenges of increasing the progressivity of tax systems in a globalised world.

31 August 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

Disability, illness and pain are real problems for the entire economy

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"Tackling them should be near the top of any list of social and economic priorities." Paul Johnson writes in the Times.

28 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

Tax and public finances: the fundamentals

Report

This report highlights 10 key facts about UK tax and public finance policy that will underpin the choices faced by governments in coming decades.

23 August 2023

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

Podcast

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

Report

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