[…] for young people are unlikely to be reversed in any significant way. And neither the youth home ownership uptick nor rising pension contributions can counteract the larger impact of passive wealth increases for those who have defined benefit pensions or were already home owners. As well as what it feels like to progress into […]

[…] wide range of data sources to take a long, hard look at both the scale and distribution of housing wealth in Scotland over time. In light of the evidence, we then reflect on a number of ways that Scottish policy makers could address the growing concerns about the scale and impact of housing wealth inequality.

[…] macroeconomic scenarios for the housing market, lenders’ and borrowers’ behaviour, and different calibrations of macroprudential policy interventions in a consistent way. This, in turn, allows us to take a forward-looking view about potential risks stemming from the distribution of mortgage debt, as well as assess the impact of potential macroprudential policies in a forward-looking manner.

[…] poverty. In line with the Commission’s wider measurement framework, data are provided for the depth and persistence of poverty as well as the wider factors that can impact on the lives of people in poverty (Lived Experience Indicators). The tables also include disaggregated data for children, pension-age adults and working-age adults. The figures are […]

We investigate the impact of exogenous local conditions which favour high market concentration on supply, price and quality in local markets for care homes for older people in England. We extend the existing literature in: (i) considering supply capacity as a market outcome alongside price and quality; (ii) taking account of the chain structure […]

[…] almost 35% in other regions. Exploiting a substantial variation in childcare availability across regions over time, this paper uses the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to evaluate the impact of extending childcare availability on mothers’ labour outcomes. I find that an increase in childcare availability has a positive and significant effect on maternal employment both […]

[…] four major structural reforms that took place in Greece during and in the aftermath of the economic crisis; using microsimulation techniques, we simulate the (ceteris paribus) first-order impact of these reforms on the distribution of incomes, the state budget and work incentives, while also trying to identify the main gainers and losers of these […]

[…] health, work, education, income, family, and social life to help understand the long term effects of social and economic change, as well as policy interventions designed to impact upon the general well-being of the UK population. This paper showcases the opportunities that Understanding Society opens up for rigorous longitudinal cohort analysis of various life […]