The government's Defence Investment Plan adds £3.8 billion a year, but how it will be funded and the path to 3.5% by 2035 ...

The government has chosen to follow the pay recommendations from the independent school teachers pay review body.

What makes a good job? This episode explores pay, progression, flexibility and why access to better work is unequal.

Spending on public support for early childhood education and care is the fastest-growing part of the education system, and one of the areas where public service spending has increased most quickly ...

How have household incomes evolved over your lifetime? What is the gap between rich and poor? How many people are there in poverty? Which groups are most likely to face poverty? These questions are ...

James Callaghan (Labour Chancellor at the time) had made a speech announcing his intentions to make far-reaching changes to the tax system in his next Budget, including a capital gains tax and a ...

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 ...

Drawing on the IFS Deaton Review of inequalities, this report sets out a policy toolkit and applications to education, jobs, geography and wealth.

The communications, finance and professional services teams work with IFS to ensure their research has the maximum impact.

Our research covers a wide range of topics related to businesses and their investments, including firm productivity, ...

Currently, only around one-in-five self-employed workers save into a private pension, compared with around four-in-five employees. There is widespread agreement that there is an urgent need for ...