Income and employment

Explaining the impacts of a changing and challenging job market, family finances, welfare reform and saving for retirement.

News - latest findings, new research, announcements

New report reveals UK’s ‘precarious middle incomers’ with insecure jobs and insecure housing

Insights 2024 published showcasing new policy-relevant using Understanding Society data 

Essex’s 60 Stories Series: Celebrating MiSoC’s rich heritage of influential policy-relevant research

Call for papers: MiSoC/ERC European Social Science Genetics Network Conference III, Rotterdam 30-31 May

Projects - new and ongoing research

Food bank

Evaluating a ‘Minimum Income Guarantee’ and modelling major income supplementation policies: A development award
People in a crowd

Gender equality and gender mainstreaming in national Recovery and Resilience Plans – Economic case

COVID-19: Distributional and budgetary consequences in the UK

Modelling Basic Income Options for France

Podcasts - audio interviews with our researchers

Using mobile devices to understand spending

Long term sickness: the costs to individuals

Poverty triggers and household change

Childcare policy – has it had any impact?

Events

Themes