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Today Chancellor Rishi Sunak has outlined details of the extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
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School closures, massive rates of job loss and furloughing, and a shift to working from home are all affecting how parents spend their time, and how mothers and fathers divide responsibilities for paid work, housework and childcare.
Observation
This morning, the ONS published its monthly public finance release for April, giving us an initial snapshot of the public finances under lockdown. It throws the enormous impact of the restrictions on the public finances into sharp relief.
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Press release
Today Chancellor Rishi Sunak has outlined details of the extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
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School closures, massive rates of job loss and furloughing, and a shift to working from home are all affecting how parents spend their time, and how mothers and fathers divide responsibilities for paid work, housework and childcare.
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Our research uses up to date real time data from DWP’s Find a Job website to track vacancy levels across all sectors of the economy and regions of the country.
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A specially-designed online survey of over 4,000 parents in England between 29 April and 12 May shows that children from better-off households are spending 30% more time each day on educational activities than are children from the poorest fifth of households.
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Issue 16 of CEPR's Covid Economics, disseminating emerging scholarly work on the Covid-19 epidemic, is now available.
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New analysis of pre-lockdown commuting patterns explores what they tell us about who would be affected by continued social distancing on public transport, and how policy can ease public transport congestion under continued social distancing.
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Revaluing and reforming council tax, and at the same time adjusting Welsh Government funding for local authorities, could help reduce geographical inequalities in Wales
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IFS Research Director Rachel Griffith has been awarded honorary foreign membership to the prestigious American Economic Association.