The reform of the dysfunctional land market is essential if the UK is to be a more equal, more productive and stable economy. It is also vital to creating a better-functioning housing market that...
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Report
Housing & infrastructure
Commission on Economic Justice
Equality
IPPR
The UK’s longstanding current account deficit indicates that the UK economy has a fundamental problem of international competitiveness. While in the past we have been able to support this through...
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Report
Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
London
World politics
IPPR
Achieving better wages and working conditions as part of a new growth model will require a renaissance of collective bargaining and a growth in trade union membership. The decline of the union...
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Briefing
Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
IPPR
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