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This report presents projections of relative and absolute income poverty among children and working-age adults in every year to 2016-17, and in 2020-21.
Employment rates through the recession have been remarkably robust, with today’s ONS figures showing employment remaining close to 30 million. The young have experienced historically low employment rates and high unemployment rates but the employment rate of women aged 60 to 64 has increased as fast since 2010 as it did during the 2000s. An important explanation is the gradual increase in the state pension age for women since 2010, which has led to more older women being in paid work. Without this policy change, the employment rate for 60 to 64 year women would have been broadly flat since 2010.
Total losses may bigger than those suffered in the 1980s, but they are more evenly spread argues Paul Johnson in an article in The Scotsman.
This paper uses data from the first two years after the change to the female state pension age to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension age from 60 to 61 on the employment of women and their partners.
This paper was given at the Nuffield Foundation on 8th March 2013
As Chancellor George Osborne prepares for his keynote statement on fiscal policy and the economy the IFS Green Budget assesses some of the issues he will have to deal with.
This article considers the phenomenon of income inequality.
Today the Government will publish a White Paper detailing plans to replace the current Basic State Pension and State Second Pension with a single state pension. The proposed reforms would be a welcome simplification of the current rather complex rules, particularly in the short run, but they also imply a reduction in the state pensions that most people born after around 1970 can expect to receive from the state. This cut in the generosity of pension benefits for currently young people will help reduce public spending on pensioners in the longer-run as pressures from an ageing population intensify. Reducing state support will also increase the incentives for younger cohorts to save privately for their retirement.
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   An IFS economist advised a “Citizens Jury” on the welfare system, including basic facts and important issues about its purpose and structure.
IFS researchers played an important role in the analysis underlying the findings of the National Equality Panel set up by the Labour Government.
IFS researchers develop a model of the Mexican tax system that will be used by the Mexican Government analysts.
Reform of the complex French state pension system was informed by recommendations by IFS researchers.
IFS researchers present and discuss new research on retirement saving with a group of business leaders and policy makers.
The IFS has made valuable contributions to the debate on VAT and its impact on the poor.
IFS researchers have monitored the extent to which some households experience higher rates of inflation than others.
In light of Government objectives to increase environmental taxation, we investigate whether the UK tax system is becoming more or less ‘green’.
Government departments used IFS research to inform decision-marking about a temporary cut in VAT.
IFS researchers found that the Saving Gateway was not the best way to support lower income families; government acted on this advice.
Methods developed at IFS for measuring wealth were instrumental in establishing a detailed government dataset about assets and debt in Britain.
IFS researchers and the World Bank plan to develop capacity and tools in developing countries for the comprehensive analysis of tax reforms
In a tough economic climate IFS looks at how households are able to cope.
IFS researchers have investigated whether it is possible to measure the distributional impact of changes to spending on public services.
The IFS played a key role in the debate about who the tax and benefit changes in recent ‘Emergency Budget’ hit hardest.
IFS researchers have investigated the relative merits of government policies designed to protect elderly households from the coldest winters.
IFS researchers suggest that a minimum price for alcohol could have a big impact.
IFS develops data on food prices and nutrition to build capacity for policy-relevant social science research.
Extensive research on inequality allowed us to develop an online model where users can plot their position in the income distribution.
An IFS research fellow is leading an independent review into how to make automatic enrolment into workplace pensions operate best.
IFS analysis forms an important input into the public debate about child and pensioner poverty and what policies are best suited to tackle these.
Past research into pension reform has contributed to evidence given to government on public service pensions.
IFS researchers have evaluated whether the temporary VAT cut was able to boost the economy effectively.
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