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Comparing in-work benefits and financial work incentives for low-income families in the US and the UK

Brewer, Mike - 2000

The goals of income transfer systems in the US and the UK for low-income families are to reduce poverty and welfare dependency and encourage work. Both the US and UK have made in-work benefits a key part of their strategy through the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Working Families' Tax...

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The return to work and how it is taxed : a dynamic perspective

Brewer, Mike; Dias, Mónica Costa; Shaw, Jonathan - 2018

This paper provides an empirical account of the dynamic return to work, and how this is affected by taxes and benefits. In doing so we bring the insights from the literature on dynamic labour supply to the issue of estimating the financial return to work and how it is taxed, where the past...

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Two decades of income inequality in Britain : the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution

Belfield, Chris; Blundell, Richard W.; Cribb, Jonathan; … - 2017

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the past two decades, including the period of relatively "inclusive" growth from 1997-2004 and the Great Recession. We focus on the middle 90%, where trends have contrasted strongly with the "new inequality" at the very top. Household...

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Macroeconomic conditions and health in Britain : aggregation, dynamics and local area heterogeneity

Janke, Katharina; Lee, Kevin; Propper, Carol; Shields, … - 2020

We estimate a model that allows for dynamic and interdependent responses of morbidity in different local areas to economic conditions at the local and national level, with statistical selection of optimal local area. We apply this approach to quarterly British data on chronic health conditions...

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Who gains when workers train? : training and corporate productivity in a panel of British industries

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - 2000

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …

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Child poverty in the UK since 1998-99 : lessons from the past decade

Brewer, Mike; Browne, James; Joyce, Robert; Sibieta, Luke - 2010

As a result of the Child Poverty Act (2010), current and future governments are committed to reducing the rate of relative income child poverty in the UK to 10% by 2020-21. This paper looks in detail at the progress made towards this goal under the previous Labour administrations. Direct tax and...

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The right to buy public housing in Britain : a welfare analysis

Disney, Richard; Luo, Guannan - 2016

We investigate the impact on social welfare of the United Kingdom (UK) policy introduced in 1980 by which public housing tenants (council housing in UK parlance) had the right to purchase their houses at heavily discounted prices. This was known as the Right to Buy (RTB) policy. Although this...

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Why has in-work poverty risen in Britain?

Bourquin, Pascale; Cribb, Jonathan; Waters, Tom; Xu, Xiaowei - 2019

An increasing proportion of people towards the bottom of the UK's income distribution are in a household where someone is in paid work. Working households comprised 37% of those below the official poverty line in 1994-95 and 58% in 2017-18. Much of that increase is due to trends that seem...

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Labour supply and taxation

Meghir, Costas (contributor); Phillips, David (contributor) - 2008

In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a focus on presenting the empirical consensus. We begin with a basic continuous hours model, where individuals have completely free choice over their hours of work. We then consider...

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Preschool and maternal labor market outcomes : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Berlinski, Samuel G. (contributor); … - 2009

In developing countries, employment rates of mothers with young children are relatively lower. This paper analyzes how maternal labor market outcomes in Argentina are affected by the preschool attendance of their children. Using pooled household surveys, we show that four yearolds with birthdays...

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