This study experimentally assesses the effects of temporary wage subsidies on employment in North Macedonia. Wage subsidies ...

At this online event IFS researchers will present the findings of a new report on trends for people in their 50s and 60s over ...

Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, he worked for ...

Lord Taverne made three crucial contributions to the IFS that formed the foundations from which it has grown.

In Britain, the headline relative in-work poverty rate steadily rose from 13.4% in 1994–95 to 18.4% in 2019–20. We study the ...

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How council tax, stamp duty and other property taxes could be reformed to make the UK’s tax system fairer and more efficient.

We argue the change in individuals’ Lorenz ordinates—their positions in the Lorenz curve—is informative about economic ...