This paper examines the influence of foreign factor prices and international corporate taxation on domestic fixed investment in the UK. There is a large literature which examines the effects of taxes and factor prices on transnational investment. This paper extends this analysis by showing in...

The New Deal for Young People (NDYP) is one of the main components of the UK government’s Welfare-to-Work strategy aimed at raising employment and reducing benefit dependency. It combines elements of an active labour market programme with a stricter benefit regime. This paper evaluates its...

Welfare-to-work programmes were implemented in several OECD countries during the 1990s. With these programmes, entitlement to unemployment related benefits is conditional on taking up help in finding and actively preparing for work. This paper examines empirically the employment effects of the...