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Employment and income

Our research on Employment and Incomes looks at trends in employment, wages, skills and the changing nature of work. Topics include the gender pay gap, public sector pay, the rise in self-employment and the effect of the tax and benefit system on labour supply.

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Retirement is not always a choice that workers can afford to make

Comment

"More of us may feel little choice but to work a year or two longer than planned." Paul Johnson writes for The Times.

6 November 2023

Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Working Paper

This paper studies how the tax-and-transfer system mitigates income inequalities over the lifetime, which can lead to disparities in living standards.

2 November 2023

Understanding retirement in the UK

Report

We comprehensively examine the changing patterns of retirement in the UK for different groups in society.

1 November 2023

Women in surgery: slow progress for mothers

Comment

Survey evidence published recently showed staggering levels of sexual harassment (and worse) in surgery.

31 October 2023

The minimum wages, turnover, and the shape of the wage distribution

Working Paper

We find that minimum wage hikes don't cause an unusual concentration of job leavers below the new minimum wage, defying neoclassical model prediction.

30 October 2023

Accident-induced absence from work and wage ladders

Working Paper

How do temporary spells of absence from work affect individuals’ labor trajectory? To answer this question, we augment a ‘wage ladder’ model.

25 October 2023

The labor market effects of disability benefit loss

Working Paper

Leveraging age and health cutoffs in the reassessment, the paper estimates employment responses to loss or reduction of benefits.

29 September 2023

Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Working Paper

We highlight the importance of social skills as a driver for wage growth for UK workers with few educational qualifications.

19 September 2023

Big firm, little firm: are differences between companies driving inequality and holding back growth?

Podcast

Debates about inequality often focus on inequalities between people. But what about inequalities between firms?

30 August 2023

Still a man’s world? Gender inequalities, parenthood and the workplace

Podcast

We ask why the gender pay gap opens up, whether things have improved in recent years, and talk about one key factor affecting women’s pay - kids.

23 August 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

Employment, earnings and incomes in Scotland

Report

How have employment, earnings and incomes performed in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK? What drives geographic inequalities within Scotland?

9 August 2023