<p><p>Average take-home incomes grew even after taking account of inflation and in spite of rising unemployment during 2008-09, the first full financial year of the recent recession. This is the surprising finding of official statistics released today. </p></p>

Authors

Mike Brewer

Mike Brewer

Luke Sibieta
Luke Sibieta

Research Fellow

Luke is a Research Fellow at the IFS and his general research interests include education policy, political economy and poverty and inequality.

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Alastair Muriel

David Phillips
David Phillips

Associate Director

David is Head of Devolved and Local Government Finance. He also works on tax in developing countries as part of our TaxDev centre.

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