Robert Joyce

Deputy Director

Robert is Deputy Director at the IFS. His research focuses primarily on the labour market, the drivers of income and wealth inequalities, and the design of the welfare system. Currently this includes work examining the impacts on jobs and pay of rises in the minimum wage, the short and long term effects of the universal credit reform to working-age benefits, and the impacts of changes in the demand for different skills on the prospects of different workers. 

Robert is a member of the Expert Panel currently leading "The Deaton Review: Inequalities in the Twenty First Century". He directed the Income, Work and Welfare sector at IFS for several years, has sat on the Social Metrics Commission, and is a former editor of IFS' two flagship annual publications, "The IFS Green Budget" and "Living Standards, Poverty and Inequality in the UK". 

Education

MSc (Distinction) Economics, University College London, 2011

BA (1st Class) Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford, 2008

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Labour’s proposed income tax rises for high-income individuals

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The Labour Party plans to increase income tax for individuals with annual taxable incomes over £80,000. Under the current system, income tax is payable on incomes above the personal allowance of £12,500 a year. The 40% higher rate becomes payable at £50,000, and the 45% additional rate kicks in at £150,000. Labour would introduce a new 45% income tax rate starting at £80,000 a year, and a new 50% rate starting at £125,000, from 2020–21.

20 November 2019

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The future path of minimum wages

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Minimum wages can play an important role in raising living standards, and have become an important part of a government’s toolkit in addressing low pay.

15 November 2019

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Inequality and the very rich: what do we know?

Event 5 November 2019 at 10:00 <p>Tothill Street, London, SW1H 9NQ</p>
At this event, speakers will set out what we know, and what we need to know, about the very rich in the UK. Using a mixture of data from household surveys and data from tax authorities, the speakers will look at trends in the share of national income that goes to very high earners, the characteristics of those at the top of the income distribution, the importance of income from capital gains, and what we know about wealth inequality.
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Inequality and the very rich: what do we know?

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At this event, speaker set out what we know, and what we need to know, about the very rich in the UK. Using a mixture of data from household surveys and data from tax authorities, the speakers looked at various characteristics of those at the top of the income distribution.

5 November 2019

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The characteristics and incomes of the top 1%

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The richest members of our society get a lot of attention. Much of the public conversation about economic inequality is concerned with, loosely, the top 1%, how different they are from the rest, how they got to where they are, and what – if anything – policy should do about it. This briefing note uses data from HMRC’s income tax records to document some key facts about the highest-income people in the country.

6 August 2019