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How do the last five years measure up on levelling up?

Farquharson, Christine; Milsom, Luke; Tahir, Imran; … - 2024

Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...

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Major challenges for education in Wales

Sibieta, Luke - 2024

high levels of inequality. …

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The state of education: What awaits the next government?

Farquharson, Christine; McKendrick, Andrew; Ridpath, Nick; … - 2024

In this report, we analyse the current state of the education system in England and set out the key challenges that the next government will inherit. This is not just a tale of despair. Compared with many other developed countries, England's education system does well in terms of student...

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Does funding follow need? An analysis of the geographic distribution of public spending in England

Phillips, David; Sibieta, Luke; Warner, Max; Zaranko, Ben - 2022

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Inequality and immigration

Dustmann, Christian; Kastis, Yannis; Preston, Ian - 2022

This chapter investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past 40 years. This is … the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK through two channels: the first is the effect on the earnings … very small. We decompose wage inequality into inequality within the immigrant and native groups and inequality between the …

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Who gives wealth transfers to whom and when? Patterns in the giving and receiving of lifetime gifts and loans

Boileau, Bee; Sturrock, David - 2023

This report gives a new and up-to-date picture of the giving and receiving of significant intergenerational wealth transfers during life, summarising the findings of two research papers. New data from the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) allow us to build a comprehensive picture of the flow of...

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Reforming inheritance tax

Advani, Arun; Sturrock, David - 2023

We set out issues with the inheritance tax system and examine options for reform and the distributional impacts of reforming or abolishing the tax.

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The changing geography of jobs

Xu, Xiaowei - 2023

This report examines the way in which "hollowing out" and other labour market trends have shaped the economic geography of the UK.

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Help onto the housing ladder: The role of intergenerational transfers

Boileau, Bee; Sturrock, David - 2023

This report describes patterns of financial help from family received by first-time buyers. We quantify the value of gifts and loans made, how they vary across different regions of the country and between those from different parental backgrounds, and shed light on their role in explaining...

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Socio-economic inequality in Scottish education

Lester, James; McKendrick, Andrew; Sibieta, Luke - 2023

The next wave of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data will be published in December 2023. This will relate to PISA tests taken in 2022, the first wave of data after the COVID-19 pandemic. In advance of these new data, this report seeks to take stock of performance to date...

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