 Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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Laura is a Senior Research Economist, currently working in the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policy (EDePo@IFS). Her research focuses on programme evaluation and the analysis of how the tax and social security systems affects the distribution of income and the behaviour of individuals in developing countries. Laura has also worked on firms’ behaviour, with specific focus on productivity and innovation issues in the UK and Europe. Recent projects include analysis of the distributional and behavioural impacts of tax reforms in Mexico and El Salvador for the World Bank; and the evaluation of a programme to alleviate extreme poverty in Colombia. 
All available publications
Laura Abramovsky, Rachel Griffith and Helen Miller, March 2012,
Offshoring of high-skilled workers is not a zero-sum game,
Vox,
VoxEU,
Newspaper Articles
Laura Abramovsky, Rachel Griffith and Helen Miller, February 2012,
Offshoring high-skilled jobs: EU multinationals and domestic employment of inventors,
External publications
, Centre for Economic Policy Research
Laura Abramovsky, Orazio Attanasio, Carl Emmerson and David Phillips, March 2011,
The distributional impact of reforms to direct and indirect tax in Mexico: analytical report and results,
External publications
, World Bank
Laura Abramovsky and Helen Simpson, January 2011,
Geographic proximity and firm-university innovation linkages: evidence from Great Britain,
Journal of Economic Geography,
Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 949-977,
Oxford Univesity Press,
Journal Articles
Laura Abramovsky, Erich Battistin, Emla Fitzsimons, Alissa Goodman and Helen Simpson, January 2011,
Providing employers with incentives to train low-skilled workers: evidence from the U.K. employer training pilots,
Journal of Labour Economics,
Vol. 29 (1),
Journal Articles
Laura Abramovsky, Orazio Attanasio, Carl Emmerson, David Phillips and Hector J. Villarreal Paez, November 2010,
The distributional impact of reforms to direct and indirect tax in Mexico: methodological issues and approach,
External publications
, World Bank
Laura Abramovsky and Rachel Griffith, April 2009,
ICT, corporate restructuring and productivity,
IFS Working Papers
, W09/10
Laura Abramovsky, Elisabeth Kremp, Alberto López, Tobias Schmidt and Helen Simpson, March 2009,
Understanding co-operative R&D activity: evidence from four European countries,
Economics of Innovation and New Technology,
vol.18(3), p243-265,
Routledge,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Laura Abramovsky, Elisabeth Kremp, Alberto López, Tobias Schmidt and Helen Simpson, October 2005,
Understanding co-operative R&D activity: evidence from four European countries,
IFS Working Papers
, W05/23
Laura Abramovsky and Helen Simpson, January 2009,
Geographic proximity and firm-university innovation linkages: evidence from Great Britain,
IFS Working Papers
, W09/03
Laura Abramovsky and Helen Simpson, December 2008,
Geographic proximity and firm-university innovation linkages: evidence from Great Britain,
External publications
, CMPO
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