Incomes, Work & Poverty Archive
Universal Credit, Good Work and Progression
16 October 2024
This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.
Universal Credit, Good Work and Progression
16 October 2024
This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.
Meeting Scotland’s child poverty reduction targets
20 February 2024
This project looks at the relative effectiveness of childcare, employability programmes and social security levers in achieving the child poverty reduction targets
Housing costs and child poverty
20 February 2024
This project utilise the IPPR tax-benefit model to model the effects, at a household level, of changes to housing policy, accounting for the complexities in the benefit system.
Exploring the frontiers of microsimulation
20 February 2024
Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling is a well-established technique used in many countries around the world for estimating the fiscal, distributional and poverty effects of policy change in the tax and benefit system
Providing advice on building a dynamic microsimulation modelling for non-communicable diseases
20 February 2024
The Health Foundation REAL Centre is working with the University of Liverpool to build a dynamic microsimulation model of non-communicable diseases to allow analysis of future demand for healthcare.
Assessing the impact on poverty of changes to the Local Housing Allowance
20 February 2024
This will provide the first definitive view of the impact that the changes to the Local Housing Allowance over the past decade have had on poverty
Work incentives in the tax and benefit system
20 February 2024
This project will identify where, and why, work incentives remain poor for so many people by conducting a comprehensive study of work incentives throughout the tax and benefit system
Social Media, Youth and Consumption of Cultural Spaces (LOCUS)
23 June 2023
LOCUS explores young people’s interactions with cultural spaces through the lens of social media consumption. This project investigates to what extent young people’s social media consumption transforms cultural spaces to “performative spaces” and how young people’s engagement with such spaces enacts their digital identities.
The Big Life Group – Multi Modal Practitioner (MMP) evaluation
17 March 2021
In partnership with the Ministry of Justice and the Barrow Cadbury Trust, PERU researchers are undertaking a qualitative study on the views and experiences of participants in the Chance to Change pilots.
Doing gig work: Social implications of platform-based food deliveries
3 June 2020
This research aims to study the platform-based gig economy and its reconfiguration of urban spaces by investigating the management, solidarity and resistance of cycle couriers in three European cities: Manchester, Lyon (France) and Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
Modelling the effects of the tax and benefit system
23 September 2019
PERU maintains and develops the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) Tax-Benefit Model, which is a tax-benefit microsimulation model used by the IPPR, Resolution Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, New Economics Foundation, and Legatum Institute.
Modelling the economic impacts of a Citizen’s Basic Income in Scotland
6 June 2019
The aim of this project was to estimate the economic impacts if a Citizen’s Basic Income were implemented throughout Scotland.
European Cohort Development Project (ECDP)
10 November 2017
The European Cohort Development Project (ECDP) is a Design Study which will create the specification and business case for a European Research Infrastructure that will provide, over the next 25 years, comparative longitudinal survey data on child and young adult well-being.
Doing Gig Work – Illustrated Material Published
7 June 2023
Publication aims to raise awareness about the platform-based gig economy
Policy failure or f***up: homelessness and welfare reform in England
24 November 2020
Homelessness and welfare reform in England
In-work progression
23 November 2020
Response to Department for Work and Pensions call for evidence and good practice on in-work progression.
Modelling the Economic Impact of a Citizen’s Basic Income in Scotland
11 June 2020
A report, co-authored by researchers from the Fraser of Allander Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University and IPPR Scotland, looks at the costs and benefits of implementing a basic income in Scotland and the channels through which it may impact upon the economy.
How Could Brexit Affect Poverty in the UK?
6 September 2018
This briefing analyses Brexit’s potential impact on families in poverty, along with other forces that could help or hinder efforts to solve UK poverty.
Globalisation and sticky prices: ‘con’ or conundrum
23 February 2016
With reference to a case study which illustrates the existence of segmented markets and international price discrimination, this paper develops a theoretical model of comparative advantage in which domestic prices may be sticky.