Overview
This research programme, a partnership between INET and the University’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention, seeks to understand the drivers and implications of economic inequality across high-income countries and which policies are effective at reducing poverty and fostering inclusive growth. The programme’s core focuses span the study of poverty and inequality, economic mobility, labour market inequalities, and the use of LLMs to advance inequality research. The programme was initially established with support from the Resolution Foundation from 2014-18, with a particular focus on how working-age households around and below the middle of the distribution were faring and how this could be improved. In subsequent years, the programme received support from The Oxford Martin Programme on Inequality and Prosperity supported by Citi and European Research Council grant led by Brian Nolan (Emeritus Director), Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) and Emmanuel Saez (University of California-Berkeley). Between 2014 & 2024 this programme was known as the Employment Equity and Growth (EEG) programme; a reading list of core EEG publications can be accessed here. In 2025, the programmed was renamed the Economics, Inequality, and Opportunity programme.
