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The short run elasticity of National Health Service nurses' labour supply in Great Britain

Crawford, Rowena; Disney, Richard; Emmerson, Carl - 2015

in wages of NHS nurses relative to wages in outside options available to nurses, utilising the panel data aspect of the …

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The abolition of the earnings rule for UK pensioners

Disney, Richard; Tanner, Sarah - 2000 - This version: April 2000

The US has legislated to abolish its social security earnings test. A priori it is not possible to predict the effect this will have on work incentives. Using data from the Family Expenditure Survey we show that the abolition of the earnings rule in the UK increased the number of hours worked by...

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Female labour supply, human capital and welfare reform

Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Mónica Costa; Meghir, Costas; … - 2016 - This draft February 2016

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in the UK, exploiting tax and benefit reforms, and use it to analyze the effects of welfare policy. We find substantial elasticities for labor supply and particularly for lone...

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Comparing sample survey measures of English earnings of graduates with administrative data during the Great Recession

Britton, Jack; Shephard, Neil G.; Vignoles, Anna - 2015

This paper compares survey based labour earnings data for English graduates, taken from the UK's Labour Force Survey (LFS), with the UK Government administrative sources of official individual level earnings data. This type of administrative data has few sample selection issues, is substantially...

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How English domiciled graduate earnings vary with gender, institution attended, subject and socio-economic background

Britton, Jack; Dearden, Lorraine; Shephard, Neil G.; … - 2016

This paper uses tax and student loan administrative data to measure how the earnings of English graduates around 10 years into the labour market vary with gender, institution attended subject and socioeconomic background. The English system is competitive to enter, with some universities...

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Incentives, shocks or signals : labour supply effects of increasing the female state pension age in the UK

Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; Tetlow, Gemma - 2013

In 1995, the UK government legislated to increase the earliest age at which women could claim a state pension from 60 to 65 between April 2010 and March 2020. This paper uses data from the first two years of this change coming into effect to estimate the impact of increasing the state pension...

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Labour supply effects of increasing the female state pension age in the UK from age 60 to 62

Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; Tetlow, Gemma - 2014

In a previous study we examined the impact on employment of increasing the state pension age for women from age 60 to 61 (Cribb, Emmerson and Tetlow, 2013). This short paper incorporates more recent data, now available up to March 2014, which allows us to study the impact on employment over the...

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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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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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Negative marginal tax rates and heterogeneity

Choné, Philippe (contributor); Laroque, Guy (contributor) - 2009

Heterogeneity is likely to be an important determinant of the shape of optimal tax schemes. This article addresses the issue in a model à la Mirrlees with a continuum of agents. The agents differ in their productivities and opportunity costs of work, but their labor supplies depend only on a...

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