'The aim of this paper is to examine the labour market impact of in-work benefit reform in the UK. Evidence is drawn from the impact of earlier in the UK and similar reforms in the US. We focus on the impact on labour supply - employment and hours of work. In the US a large proportion of the dramatic increase in participation among low educated single parents in the 1990s has been attributed to the increased generosity of the EITC. The impact of apparently similar reforms in the UK appears to have been smaller. We argue that these differences can be attributed to four factors: the impact of interactions with other means tested benefits in the UK; the importance of workless couples with children in the UK, who make up nearly 50 per cent of t...
Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for t...
U.S. welfare reforms, whether promoting work first or human capital development, have had in common ...
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to ha...
'In this paper we discuss the role of tax and benefit systems in the context of the functioning of t...
This paper presents a tour of welfare reform in the UK since the last change of government, summaris...
In-work benefits are promoted as a way to make low-income families better off without introducing a...
Abstract: Alongside the growth in overall employment and the steady rise in average real incomes ove...
Abstract: Alongside the growth in overall employment and the steady rise in average real incomes ove...
In‐work credits grew in popularity worldwide during the late 1990s and 2000s as a means of reforming...
Final version With micro-data from before and after a major reform in 1999 to the structure and form...
With micro-data from before and after a major reform in 1999 to the structure and form of in-work tr...
This paper examines the impact of the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) on employment retention and...
Social assistance and inactivity traps have long been considered amongst the main causes of the poor...
Earning an income is probably the best way of avoiding poverty and social exclusion, hence the recen...
In October 1999, the British government enacted the Working Families' Tax Credit, which aimed at enc...
Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for t...
U.S. welfare reforms, whether promoting work first or human capital development, have had in common ...
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to ha...
'In this paper we discuss the role of tax and benefit systems in the context of the functioning of t...
This paper presents a tour of welfare reform in the UK since the last change of government, summaris...
In-work benefits are promoted as a way to make low-income families better off without introducing a...
Abstract: Alongside the growth in overall employment and the steady rise in average real incomes ove...
Abstract: Alongside the growth in overall employment and the steady rise in average real incomes ove...
In‐work credits grew in popularity worldwide during the late 1990s and 2000s as a means of reforming...
Final version With micro-data from before and after a major reform in 1999 to the structure and form...
With micro-data from before and after a major reform in 1999 to the structure and form of in-work tr...
This paper examines the impact of the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) on employment retention and...
Social assistance and inactivity traps have long been considered amongst the main causes of the poor...
Earning an income is probably the best way of avoiding poverty and social exclusion, hence the recen...
In October 1999, the British government enacted the Working Families' Tax Credit, which aimed at enc...
Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for t...
U.S. welfare reforms, whether promoting work first or human capital development, have had in common ...
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to ha...