The UK minimum wage has increased by more than 70% in real terms since 1999. What’s it doing to jobs, prices and profits - ...

We evaluate the introduction of freestanding Emergency Care Centers within Brazil’s publicly funded health system, leveraging ...

Reform UK says it would cut income tax in Scotland if it wins the Scottish Parliament election in May. Objective analysis of economic policy is more important now than it has ever been. You can join ...

An IFS event discussing new research on the UK fiscal framework, its limitations, and options for longer-term reform.

Using Global Minds data across 44 countries over the period 2020–25 we confirm that ill-being is no longer hump-shaped in age ...

As a result, the hump shape in despair by age, which we can see here in the dark line which shows the years 2009 to 2018, has ...

We propose a novel measure of intergenerational welfare mobility, “value-value” slope, including both pecuniary and ...

This issue brings together three papers that examine how, and why, the places where people grow up, live and work shape their ...

The thresholds at which income tax and higher rates of income tax begin to apply have not been increased in cash terms since April 2021, and for National Insurance contributions (NICs) the same has ...

This Journal article is an update of Why has in-work poverty risen in Britain? Is work a reliable route out of poverty, and what does that depend upon? In Britain, the headline relative poverty rate ...

At the 2023 Spring Budget, then-Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the largest-ever expansion of publicly funded childcare entitlements, offering new entitlements for working families with children aged ...

The new tax year marks the end of an era in the UK’s welfare state. Over 20 years since working tax credit (WTC) and child tax credit (CTC) significantly expanded its size and scope, these benefits ...