Childhood language skills and adult literacy: a twenty-nine year follow-up study

Understand this issue

Scottish Budget 2024-25: IFS analysis

event 22 February 2024 at 10:00

Ahead of the final Scottish Parliament vote on the Budget, IFS researchers presented their analysis of the proposals.

If you can’t see it, you can’t be it: role models influence female junior doctors’ choice of medical specialty

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Working alongside a greater share of senior women specialists during an early-career placement influences junior women’s own specialty choice.

24 April 2024

Retirement is not always a choice that workers can afford to make

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"More of us may feel little choice but to work a year or two longer than planned." Paul Johnson writes for The Times.

6 November 2023

Policy analysis

Progression of nurses within the NHS

report

This report examines the career progression of NHS nurses, how this compares with that of other NHS staff groups and how this has changed over time.

12 April 2024

Regional variation in earnings and the retention of NHS staff in Agenda for Change bands 1 to 4

report

We examine the association between local pay and retention of NHS hospital and community staff in pay bands 1 to 4 of the Agenda for Change framework.

10 April 2024

Gap between higher- and lower-paid public sector workers falls by more than a third since 2007 as doctors and experienced teachers have faced unprecedented pay cuts

press release

How has public sector pay changed in recent years? Which type of workers have done better and which have done worse?

26 March 2024

Academic research

Higher Education Access and Funding: challenges and policy options

conference 14 May 2024 at 11:00

This one-day academic conference looked at access to and funding of Higher Education systems.

Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages

working paper

We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US.

15 April 2024

Interpreting cohort profiles of lifecycle earnings volatility

working paper

We present new estimates of earnings volatility over time and the lifecycle for men and women by race and human capital.

15 April 2024