The 'costs of compliance' of benefits and tax credits

Understand this issue

If you can’t see it, you can’t be it: role models influence female junior doctors’ choice of medical specialty

comment

Working alongside a greater share of senior women specialists during an early-career placement influences junior women’s own specialty choice.

24 April 2024

The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government

podcast

We speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.

25 April 2024

A mess has been made of Child Benefit, and the clear-up operation may not be easy

comment

"Status quos can be hard to change, no matter how incoherent they are." Robert Joyce writes about child benefit in The Telegraph.

29 March 2024

Policy analysis

Recent trends in and the outlook for health-related benefits

report

Recipients of and spending on health-related benefits have risen rapidly since the start of the pandemic, posing a serious challenge for policymakers.

19 April 2024

4.2 million working-age people now claiming health-related benefits, could rise by 30% by the end of the decade

press release

Our new report sheds more light on forecasts for a substantial increase in the number of people claiming health-related benefits in coming years.

19 April 2024

Gap between higher- and lower-paid public sector workers falls by more than a third since 2007 as doctors and experienced teachers have faced unprecedented pay cuts

press release

How has public sector pay changed in recent years? Which type of workers have done better and which have done worse?

26 March 2024

Academic research

Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages

working paper

We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US.

15 April 2024

Interpreting cohort profiles of lifecycle earnings volatility

working paper

We present new estimates of earnings volatility over time and the lifecycle for men and women by race and human capital.

15 April 2024

There and back again: women’s marginal commuting costs

working paper

We estimate female and male workers’ marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany.

2 April 2024