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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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Employment, earnings and incomes in Scotland

Phillips, David; Waters, Tom; Wernham, Tom - 2023

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Reforming inheritance tax

Advani, Arun; Sturrock, David - 2023

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Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK : 2022

Cribb, Jonathan; Waters, Tom; Wernham, Thomas; Xu, Xiaowei - 2022

and poverty. This is the 22nd annual report published by IFS authors on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK … different groups in the UK, and the consequences that these changes have for income inequality and for measures of deprivation … poverty and material deprivation to examine the situation facing poor families with children prior to the pandemic. …

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The cost of living crisis : a pre-Budget briefing

Cribb, Jonathan; Joyce, Robert; Karjalainen, Heidi; … - 2023

The recent surge in inflation, driven by spectacular increases in energy prices, has driven sharp falls in household living standards, huge government intervention to try to mitigate it, and serious policy headaches. As such it continues to be the backdrop behind many of the most pressing issues...

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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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Seven key facts about UK living standards

Cribb, Jonathan; Waters, Tom - 2024

What has happened to average incomes, inequality, poverty, jobs and pay since 2009 and since 2019? How does the UK …

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Distributional analysis of Ghana's tax system

Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Phillips, David; Chackson, … - 2023

In recent years, policymakers across the globe have become increasingly interested in not only the revenue consequences of tax policies but also their distributional impacts: that is, their impacts on different segments of the population. Such evidence can promote a more equitable and...

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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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