Inquiry. Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact. The Women and Equalities Committee is launching three sub-inquiries, drawing on evidence to our Unequal impact: Coronavirus (Covid-19) and the impact on people with protected characteristics inquiry. Read more about our decision to launch the sub-inquires. In this sub-inquiry, we want to look in more […]

This document sets out the impact on household finances of the government’s decisions since Spending Round 2019 (SR19) and recent trends in living standards. Households’ living standards are affected both by the general performance of the economy and by the direct impact of government decisions. A strong economy means there are more job opportunities […]

This paper analyses the impact of the implementation of a child tax credit in Austria in 2019, both on micro and macro level. First, we assess the fiscal and distributional impact of this reform using EUROMOD. Second, we estimate labour supply impacts of the reform based on a structural discrete choice framework. Third, we […]

We analyse the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on EU households’ income and assess the cushioning effect of discretionary policy measures taken by the EU Member States. Our assessment is based on the European Commission Spring 2020 forecasts and counterfactual scenarios under a no policy change assumption. Our analysis suggests that over the course […]

[…] Systems, University of Manchester; Dr Duncan Brown, Independent Adviser, Principal Associate, Institute of Employment Studies; Monica Costa Dias, Deputy Research Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies. Inquiry. Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact. The Women and Equalities Committee is launching three sub-inquiries, drawing on evidence to our Unequal impact: Coronavirus (Covid-19) and the […]

This Interim Report forms part of the Department’s comprehensive independent review in evaluating the impact of changes to the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) system of Housing Benefit (HB), which were introduced from April 2011. The changes to LHA were announced in the June 2010 Budget and the Comprehensive Spending Review announcement of 2010 and […]

This paper analyses the impact that local labour market conditions have on entry wages of highly educated workers in Great Britain and Finland. In both countries, workers entering the labour market in regions with (or periods of) tighter job competition obtain lower wages. Competition from employed job seekers has a negative impact on entry […]

We use data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to construct a measure of financial capability and then investigate the relative impacts of financial capability and income on psychological health. Financial capability is conceptually different from income or material wellbeing and reflects people’s ability to control their finances, make appropriate financial decisions, understand […]

We explore the impact of unsustainable housing commitments on psychological well-being using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We test the hypotheses that (i) housing payment problems, housing arrears and the threat of eviction and repossession have adverse impacts on heads of household’s psychological well-being over and above those caused by financial hardship […]

We use unique information on migration behaviour and the reasons for migration to study the impact of tied migration on labour market outcomes among husbands and wives. We find that fewer than 2% of couples migrate for job-related reasons, and that the majority of these move for reasons associated with the husband’s job. Estimates […]