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About the Team
The Labour Markets and Distributional Analysis team is a friendly team of around 30 outstanding analysts and policy makers located across London and Darlington offices. We seek to bring together an understanding of and advise on policy development related to households’ living standards, distributional analysis across different financial and demographic characteristics, and labour market outcomes. The work is at the centre of the government’s priorities to boost growth and overcome obstacles to opportunity.
HM Treasury’s Labour Market Analysis team conducts microeconomic analysis of the labour market, with a particular focus on employment policy, the labour market impacts of tax and social security policy, labour market regulation and the minimum wage.
We play an important role at fiscal events (such as Spending Reviews and Budgets), in informing ministers on the economic impacts of policy decisions. For example, our team’s Labour Supply Model – co-owned with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) – has provided the evidence base at recent fiscal events for OBR judgements about the impact of policy on the supply side of the economy. The team’s work is also an important contributor to the Chancellor’s focus on the government’s Growth Mission and receives frequent ministerial interest i...