Xiaowei Xu

The employment and distributional impacts of nationwide minimum wage changes

Journal article

We assess the impact of the change in the UK’s minimum wage between 2016 and 2019 on wages, earnings, employment and household incomes.

10 April 2024

How has the NLW affected pay differentials within firms?

Comment

Some evidence on the effects of the National Living Wage on firms' wage structures.

16 February 2024

Inequality in the UK: 1968-2021

Report

How have employment and earnings changed in the UK over the last 50 years? What has the effect been on average incomes and income inequality?

29 November 2023

Housing costs and income inequality in the UK

Report

This report sheds light on some of the drivers of changes in housing costs over time for different groups.

17 November 2023

Housing costs take up three-and-a-half times as much of the budgets of the poor as of the rich, with significant implications for their standard of living

Press Release

"It is not possible to understand income poverty or inequality without taking account of housing costs."

17 November 2023

The changing geography of jobs

Report

This report examines the way in which ‘hollowing out’ and other labour market trends have shaped the economic geography of the UK.

13 November 2023

Increasing concentration of high-skilled jobs in London means graduates elsewhere cannot fully capitalise on their education

Press Release

The current economic geography of the UK limits both social mobility and the effective use of talent across the country.

13 November 2023

Levelling Up: Is inequality between places Britain’s biggest problem?

Podcast

Since 2019, 'levelling up' has been at the forefront of the political agenda - but is inequality between places really Britain’s biggest problem?

16 August 2023

Pay growth for London’s top earners has driven up geographical inequality in mean earnings

Comment

Strong pay growth in business services has pushed up top earnings in London, widening geographical inequalities in mean earnings.

25 July 2023

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Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2023

Event 13 July 2023 at 11:00 via Slido and Youtube

This online event presented the key findings from our latest flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK.

Poverty

Report

We investigate recent trends in poverty, and government policies aimed at alleviating it.

13 July 2023

Lump-sum cost of living payments poorly designed to alleviate deprivation

Press Release

The government has introduced a series of ‘cost of living payments’.

13 July 2023

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2023

Report

We investigate how living standards have changed for different groups in the UK, with a particular focus on the cost of living payments and housing.

13 July 2023

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2023

Presentation

This online event presented the key findings from our latest flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK.

13 July 2023

Recent changes to universal credit have much smaller effect on poverty than £20 uplift

Comment

Absolute poverty fell from 17.9% to 16.8% in the first year of the pandemic, due to rising benefit receipts.

9 July 2023

Living standards and inequality

Report

We examine recent trends in households’ living standards, with a particular focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–21 and 2021–22.

7 July 2023

Nearly half of older adults who left the workforce in 2020–21 ended up in relative poverty

Press Release

New IFS research, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, shows that 48% of 50- to 70-year-olds who had recently left the workforce in 2020–21 ended

7 July 2023

New data show signs of over 50s returning to the workforce

Comment

New data from the end of 2022 show an uptick in 50- to 64-year-olds returning to the workforce.

2 March 2023

The cost of living crisis: a pre-Budget briefing

Report

The recent surge in inflation, driven by spectacular increases in energy prices, has driven sharp falls in household living standards.

22 February 2023

Pandemics, recessions and mental health: young people and jobs in 2023

Podcast

We look at the future for young people in the jobs market and how they were affected by the pandemic.

25 January 2023

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The employment and distributional impacts of nationwide minimum wage changes

How has the NLW affected pay differentials within firms?

Inequality in the UK: 1968-2021

Housing costs and income inequality in the UK

Housing costs take up three-and-a-half times as much of the budgets of the poor as of the rich, with significant implications for their standard of living

The changing geography of jobs

Increasing concentration of high-skilled jobs in London means graduates elsewhere cannot fully capitalise on their education

Levelling Up: Is inequality between places Britain’s biggest problem?

Pay growth for London’s top earners has driven up geographical inequality in mean earnings

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2023

Poverty

Lump-sum cost of living payments poorly designed to alleviate deprivation

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2023

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2023

Recent changes to universal credit have much smaller effect on poverty than £20 uplift

Living standards and inequality

Nearly half of older adults who left the workforce in 2020–21 ended up in relative poverty

New data show signs of over 50s returning to the workforce

The cost of living crisis: a pre-Budget briefing

Pandemics, recessions and mental health: young people and jobs in 2023

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