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The Impact of Policy Change on Job Retention and Advancement
Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2008
This paper examines the impact of the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) on employment retention and advancement. The WFTC, which replaced Family Credit in October 1999, supplemented earnings of low paid workers living in low income families. It was designed to increase the financial incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201153
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Thatcherism, New Labour and the Welfare State (chapter in "New Labour: A turning point in British Politics", H Kastgendiek and R Stimshoff (eds), Philo, 1999)
Hills, John - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 1998
measures intended to reduce inequality and relative poverty, but with controversy over benefit levels; and the new dominance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201184
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Welfare Reform in the United States: Implications for British Social Policy (with commentaries by Kitty Stewart, David Piachaud and Howard Glennerster)
Midgley, James - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2008
Recent government pronouncements in the UK and above all the recent Conservative Party (2008) policy document on welfare reform suggest that US welfare reform is increasingly being taken as a model for the UK. What lessons should the UK draw from US experience? The long established means tested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201204
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The Evolution of Disability Benefits in the UK: Re-weighting the basket
Burchardt, Tania - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 1999
This paper attempts to clarify the significance of reforms to disability benefits proposed by the New Labour government in 1998, by setting them in the context of the development of disability benefits in the early 1970s. The first two sections chart the creation, extension and subsequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685956
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Welfare Reform in the United States: Implications for British Social Policy (with commentaries by Kitty Stewart, David Piachaud and Howard Glennerster)
Midgley, James - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2008
Recent government pronouncements in the UK and above all the recent Conservative Party (2008) policy document on welfare reform suggest that US welfare reform is increasingly being taken as a model for the UK. What lessons should the UK draw from US experience? The long established means tested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838667
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The Impact of Policy Change on Job Retention and Advancement
Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2008
This paper examines the impact of the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) on employment retention and advancement. The WFTC, which replaced Family Credit in October 1999, supplemented earnings of low paid workers living in low income families. It was designed to increase the financial incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838675
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Expenditure Patterns Post-Welfare Reform in the UK: Are low-income families starting to catch up?
Gregg, Paul; Waldfogel, Jane; Washbrook, Elizabeth - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2005
In this paper we provide evidence on how the UK government's welfare reforms since 1998 have affected the material well-being of children in low-income families. We examine changes in expenditure patterns and ownership of durable goods for low- and higher-income families between the pre-reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510481
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Identifying Vulnerable Groups in the Kyrgyz Labour Market: Some Implications for the National Poverty Reduction Strategy
Bernabe, Sabine; Kolev, Alexandre - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2003
This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working … is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty Monitoring Survey, which is the only survey to date that allows a comprehensive … analysis of poverty and labor market outcomes in the Kyrgyz Republic. The period under investigation covers the years 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201154
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US Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement: The past 25 years
Glennerster, Howard - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2000
This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to the study of poverty in the past twenty … five years. It has three parts. The first concentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US poverty line … remained unchanged in that period despite its increasingly important deficiencies. Proposals to produce a revised poverty line …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201156
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Growing Up: School, family and area influences on adolescents later life chances
Burgess, Simon; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2001
, school and local area when growing up, on earnings capacity and poverty risk once they reach adulthood. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201162