Over recent years there has been increasing concern among economists and statisticians, and a variety of commentators and organisations in civil society, about whether the current range of economic...
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Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
IPPR
This policy paper proposes a new framework for UK macroeconomic policy. Since the global financial crisis, monetary and fiscal policy have been pulling in opposite directions. On the one hand the...
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Briefing
Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
IPPR
A declining labour share of national income, together with unequal capital ownership, mean wealth inequality in the UK has risen and is set to rise further. This policy paper sets out why a...
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Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
Young people
Equality
IPPR
Over the last decade a substantial reduction in the effective rate of corporation tax has been accompanied by a rise in employers’ national insurance contributions. At the same time there has been...
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Briefing
Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
IPPR
This policy paper sets out a mechanism for improving the progressivity, efficiency and revenue raising potential of income taxes in the UK. It proposes a major reform of the current system, with two...
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Briefing
Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
IPPR
As machines become increasingly capable of performing tasks once thought to be the sole preserve of people, some commentators have raised the spectre of mass unemployment and profound economic disruption.
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Report
Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
IPPR
The unequal ownership of capital in the economy is a powerful driver of inequality. With the share of national income going to capital having increased in recent decades, and likely to rise...
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Report
Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
Our current immigration system lacks a strategic mission. For too long, the development of immigration policy has been driven by ad hoc reactions to political and operational crises, operating inde...
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Report
Commission on Economic Justice
IPPR
Society & migration
This discussion paper argues that industrial strategy should become a central pillar of economic policy. Given the UK economy’s deep structural weaknesses – in productivity, trade, research and...
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Report
Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
IPPR
The UK is a wealthy nation; but that wealth is very unevenly divided. This report shows how these inequalities exist between individuals and families, between areas of the country, generations and...
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Report
Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
IPPR