The OxREP's newest issue on "The Future of the Welfare State In the UK" has been published! Read all articles online here:.

Rising health spending threatens fiscal sustainability in England. Anita Charlesworth and @Ann__Raymond suggest that long-term funding must rely on higher taxes or private spending due to limited scope for public service cuts. #NHS #FiscalPolicy.

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The UK must significantly expand health and social care supply to meet rising demand. @MaxWarnerIFS and @BenZaranko explore how to boost inputs and productivity amid policy and fiscal constraints. #HealthPolicy #SocialCare.

Council housing, once common and broadly accessible, now serves mainly low-income households and sees minimal new builds. Peter A. Kemp finds that social housing covers only 1 in 6 households today. #HousingPolicy #uk .

UK pensions face challenges from an ageing population. @JCribbEcon, Carl Emmerson and @Heidi_Karj argue that this implies raising pension age—hitting poorer groups hardest—or limiting ‘triple lock’ indexation, impacting higher earners more. #Pensions.

In 2023, the UK tax-benefit system reduced income inequality by 27.6%, trailing France. Victoria Prowse shows that fiscal drag disproportionately affects low earners, while advocating for higher Universal Credit to limit inequality. #TaxPolicy #Inequality.

David Coady traces 40 years of UK fiscal redistribution. Labour’s 1997–2010 expansion boosted budget effort but cut progressivity; post-2010 austerity reversed this. Notably, redistribution to the poorest declined throughout. #Welfare #UKPolicy.

Sustained productivity growth underpins a successful welfare state but the UK has faced years of stagnant real wages and weak productivity. @s_machin_ explores policies to revive sustained wage growth. #Growth #UK.

The Nordic welfare model is lauded for balancing high income and equality in open economies with large public sectors. Torben M. Andersen and @MichaelSvarer review its features, resilience, and policies, while exploring future challenges. #Welfare #Nordics.

Generous welfare systems don’t uniformly attract migrants. @MFReino, @Naughtweek (Isabel Ruiz) and William L. Allen show that skilled immigrants tend to contribute positively, while humanitarian migrants may incur short-term costs. #Migration #Policy.

Rhys Andrews examines divergence in local welfare expenditure across the devolved UK. While academy school expansion in England reduced local education spending, Scotland’s free social care policy increased adult social care expenditure. #LocalWelfareUK.

@IPR_NickP and @GavinJKelly1 analyse how the UK welfare state was reshaped during austerity and Covid, showing that despite fundamental changes, most reforms aligned with the UK's liberal model. They also explore future reform paths. #UKWelfareReform.

Lawrence Goldman traces the British welfare state’s evolution through the 1830s, 1900s, and 1940s, arguing that issues from the Poor Law era still resonate. Similarly, Beveridge and Bevan's visions underpin welfare provision even today. #Welfare.

The British welfare state faces challenges in service delivery and funding. Christopher Adam and İrem Güçeri discuss ageing populations, precarious work, and housing shortages, and explore how Labour can make welfare fit for the future. #FutureWelfareUK.

Recommender systems are both a beneficial tool and source of market distortion. In the OxREP, @EmilioC_, Giacomo Calzolari, Vincenzo Denicolò, and Sergio Pastorello argue that the benefits of RS need to be balanced against their economic implications.

Are the traditional tools and frameworks of competition policy robust to artificial intelligence? In the OxREP, @ce_tucker discusses how competition policymakers can identify bad intent by firm when confronted with algorithm-based decision-making.

Clarifying the discussion around eco-systems in competition policy, Pierre Régibeau and Katharine E. Rockett identify key theories of harm. Read the latest OxREP to find out more about “defensive foreclosure” and the Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta cases.

Insights from behavioural economics have been key to improving regulation of markets dominated by tech companies. Amelia Fletcher and Zita Vasas emphasise the importance of choice architecture in competition law cases in their contribution to the OxREP.