Topics

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.

Showing 101 – 120 of 909 results

Market power and wage inequality

Working Paper

We propose a theory of how market power affects wage inequality.

26 September 2022

What drives wage stagnation: monopsony or monopoly?

Working Paper

Wages for the vast majority of workers have stagnated since the 1980s while productivity has grown.

26 September 2022

Will public sector workers get a pay rise?

Podcast

With inflation squeezed living standards, will the government have to give public sector workers a pay rise?

21 September 2022

Job displacement costs of phasing out coal

Working Paper

We use the dramatic collapse of the UK coal industry to estimate the long-term impact on displaced miners.

14 September 2022

Optimal random taxation and redistribution

Working Paper

We assess the usefulness of stochastic redistribution among a continuum of risk-averse agents with quasilinear utilities in labor.

7 September 2022

Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality

Working Paper

This paper demonstrates conceptually and empirically the importance of “trade-induced horizontal inequality."

6 September 2022

Conservative leadership election 2022

Collection

Analysis of policy announcements made by Conservative leadership contenders Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss.

30 August 2022

Factors associated with staff retention in the NHS acute sector

Report

This report examines how a range of individual staff characteristics are associated with whether individual staff members decide to leave the NHS.

23 August 2022

Which staff members leave the NHS acute sector?

Comment

Increasing retention of NHS staff is important for achieving policy goals. We examine which staff are most likely to leave the NHS acute sector.

23 August 2022

The impact of unions on nonunion wage setting: threats and bargaining

Working Paper

In this paper we provide new estimates of the impact of unions on nonunion wage setting.

18 August 2022

Why is inequality in the labour market growing?

Explainer

Giulia Giupponi takes us through the latest research on the UK labour market.

3 August 2022

Long COVID and the labour market

Report

We assess long COVID's impact has on labour market outcomes including hours, earnings and employment.

27 July 2022

An initial response to the public sector pay announcement

Comment

The government has announced pay rises for public sector workers covered by independent pay review bodies.

20 July 2022

What should public sector pay policy be trying to achieve?

Comment

What is the objective of public sector pay policy? What is it, and what should it be, trying to achieve?

18 July 2022

Recent and future patterns of work around state pension age

Presentation

How long are people's working lives? Are they getting longer or - since the pandemic - shorter?

20 June 2022

Recent and future patterns of work around state pension age

Report

This report brings together new evidence on these issues to examine the recent trends in, and prospects for, the labour market for people in their 50s and 60s.

20 June 2022

The hardest decision for ministers is yet to come: what to do about pay

Comment

Paul Johnson writes for the Times on the 'difficult decisions' surrounding public sector pay.

20 June 2022

How do firms impact inequality?

Explainer

In this video, John Van Reenan takes us through the latest research on firms in the UK - and looks at their impact on inequality.

16 June 2022

The rise in economic inactivity among people in their 50s and 60s

Report

This report seeks to shed new light on the fall in employment and rise in economic inactivity amongst older people in the UK, with a particular focus on those in their 50s and 60s.

16 June 2022