The National Equality Panel (NEP) has invited ISER Director Stephen Jenkins to undertake a project as part of its plans to provide the Government with an authoritative analysis of inequality in the UK.
The £10,000 project, Differences in lifecourse income trajectories, will use the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to summarize how earnings and income vary over the lifecourse as a whole and to contrast the shapes of these profiles between men and women, people from different birth cohorts and with different educational qualifications.
Professor Jenkins, one of nine academics on the Panel, will produce a preliminary report by the end of May and a final report by the end of June. The research will contribute to the NEP’s comprehensive report on inequality to be submitted to the Government in the Autumn.
The NEP is investigating how people’s life chances are affected by gender, race, disability, age and other important aspects of inequality such as where they were born, what kind of family they were born into, where they live and their wealth. Ultimately it will analyse how equality trends have changed over the last decade and establish where gaps have widened or narrowed in society.
Earlier this year, the NEP also commissioned a report from ISER looking at pay gaps experienced by minority ethno-religious groups and disabled people.