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The idiosyncratic impact of an aggregate shock : the distributional consequences of COVID-19
Benzeval, Michaela; Burton, Jonathan; Crossley, Thomas F.; … - 2020
Using new data from the Understanding Society: COVID 19 survey collected in April 2020, we show how the aggregate shock caused by the pandemic affects individuals across the distribution. The survey collects data from existing members of the Under-standing Society panel survey who have been...
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Can't wait to get my pension : the effect of raising the female state pension age on income, poverty and deprivation
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl - 2017
The earliest age at which women can receive a state pension in the UK (the "state pension age") has been increasing since 2010. We use a difference-in-differences methodology, exploiting the gradual increase from age 60 in 2010 to age 63 in 2016, to estimate the impact of the reform on women's...
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Why has in-work poverty risen in Britain?
Bourquin, Pascale; Cribb, Jonathan; Waters, Tom; Xu, Xiaowei - 2019
) into work. We show that increases in household earnings inequality among households with someone in paid work since 1994 …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713947
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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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Lifetime inequality and redistribution
Brewer, Mike; Dias, Mónica 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 to relate lifetime and annual inequality and determine the main building …
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How taxes and welfare distort work incentives : static lifecycle and dynamic perspectives
Brewer, Mike; Dias, Mónica Costa; Shaw, Jonathan - 2013
Personal taxes and benefits affect the incentive to work over the lifecycle by altering income-age profiles, insuring against adverse shocks, and changing the returns to human capital. Previous work investigating the impact of taxes and benefits on work incentives has tended to ignore these...
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Challenges to promoting social inclusion of the extreme poor : evidence from a large scale experiment in Colombia
Abramovsky, Laura; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Barron, Kai; … - 2014
We evaluate the large scale pilot of an innovative and major welfare intervention in Colombia, which combines homes visits by trained social workers to households in extreme poverty with preferential access to social programs. We use a randomized control trial and a very rich dataset collected...
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The impact of a time-limited, targeted in-work benefit in the medium-term : an evaluation of In Work Credit
Brewer, Mike; Browne, James; Chowdry, Haroon; Crawford, … - 2011
Conventional in-work benefits or tax credits are now well established as a policy instrument for increasing labour supply and tackling poverty. A different sort of in-work credit is one where the payments are time-limited, conditional on previous receipt of welfare, and, perhaps, not...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011923698