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Why has in-work poverty risen in Britain?

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

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 straightforwardly positive: lower poverty rates among pensioners and … rate of poverty in house holds where someone works. We examine the reason for the increased in-work relative poverty rate …

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...

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Lifetime inequality and redistribution

Brewer, Mike; Dias, Monica Costa; Shaw, Jonathan - 2012

In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime perspective? To answer to these questions it is crucial...

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Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms

Levell, Peter; Roantree, Barra; Shaw, Jonathan - 2017

This paper examines the distributional impact of increases to out-of-work transfers, increases to work-contingent transfers, and increases in higher rates of income tax over the whole of life. We find that, in contrast to what is implied by standard snapshot analyses, increases to...

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Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms

Levell, Peter; Roantree, Barra; Shaw, Jonathan - 2016

The distributional impact of proposed reforms plays a central role in public debates around tax and transfer policy. We show that accounting for realistic patterns of mobility in employment, earnings and household circumstances over the life-cycle greatly affects our assessment of the...

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