We develop an empirical search-matching model with productivity shocks so as to analyze policy interventions in a labour market with heterogeneous agents.

This paper compares partial and general equilibrium eects of alternative education policies on the distribution of education and earnings.

This note provides projections of relative and absolute income poverty among children and working-age adults in the UK for each year between 2010-11 and 2013-14.

This note provides details on the average losses among pensioner households from tax and benefit reforms that will be introduced between January 2011 and April 2014.

IFS analysis shows that the coalition Government's tax increases and welfare cuts are hitting Londoners harder, on average, than households across the UK as a whole.

The following note contains a description and explanation of how the IFS has examined the impact on receipts of income tax and national insurance, and on spending on benefits and tax credits, if employers increased wages to a "living wage".

Despite current emphasis on health insurance expansions in developing countries, inefficient consumer incentives for over-use of medical care are an important counterbalancing concern.

This is an update in February 2010 on the progress of the FINISH project in India.