UK household overcrowding by country of birth
The ONS’s latest publication of data from the 2011 Census explores living arrangements in the UK, which includes breaking the information down by the country of birth of the household’s family reference person[1]. The first thing to note is that three-quarters of households with a UK born family reference person have two or more rooms Read more…
London success masks failure to supply jobs for unqualified
The ONS today issued a release looking into the relationship between qualifications and labour market participation, as shown in the 2011 Census. The most striking thing about this release is the number of London boroughs that rank bottom across the country for employment levels among those people with few or no qualifications. Looking at people Read more…
What the think tanks think
Do you want to know what the think tanks are thinking? If you, like us, are interested in public policy research and want to keep up with the most recent thinking, the latest reports from thinks tanks, research organisations and foundations are where you want to go. However, as there are many organisations producing excellent Read more…
Does a higher minimum wage encourage firms to invest more in training their staff?
There is a great deal of debate among academics about minimum wages, the vast majority of which looks at whether a higher minimum wage increases unemployment, see Neumark and Wascher (2007) for a summary (sources are listed below). However, an often neglected question is whether a minimum wage encourages firms to invest in their staff whose Read more…
Residents squeeze into London
Today the ONS released a household composition report, based on data taken from the 2011 census. This report shows things such as the size, tenure and composition of all households in the UK (Scotland isn’t included in the data). Comparing this release to 2001 there were several interesting findings, but the most visible across all Read more…
Our first clients
Since our launch all the way back in March 2014, we’re delighted to report that our first clients are Google, Nesta, the Financial Services Consumer Panel and Toynbee Hall. May 22nd 2014
What the think tanks think
Do you want to know what the think tanks are thinking? If you, like us, are interested in public policy research and want to keep up with the most recent thinking, the latest reports from thinks tanks, research organisations and foundations are where you want to go. However, as there are many organisations producing excellent Read more…
Piketty’s equation doesn’t work in Britain
In a piece published today by The Guardian Comment is Free we argue that today’s data from the ONS shows that Thomas Piketty’s wealth equation doesn’t work in Britain. Read more here May 15th 2014
The real winners in the wealth distribution
The former governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, presumably has a little more time on his hands now than he did at the height of the financial crisis. This has enabled him to become one of the people who has actually read Piketty’s book on the distribution of wealth, rather than simply one Read more…
Wealthy nation
We have developed a cluster model to describe patterns of asset distribution amongst households in Britain, in partnership with the Smith Institute. This enables us to explore how households with different characteristics are able (or not) to build up housing, pension and other assets over their lifetimes and the way in which inheritances affect the Read more…
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