objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment … and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres … particular, result in a higher probability of subsequent employment. Conditional on finding work, replying to advertisements …

lone parents, and the sick and disabled. Accompanying these have been changes to direct taxes, tax credits and welfare … incentives of (potential) second earners in families with children, many more workers now face combined marginal tax and tax … child poverty has led the Government to increase substantially income available to non-working families with children. We …

. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment rates, but a high proportion of non-workers say that they are not working …

welfare reforms are primarily spending more money on items related to employment but not items for children. Finally, a common …This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low … more money on items related to children and are more likely to own a car and a phone, while in the US, families affected by …

inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …

ineffectiveness of subsidized work in moving individuals into employment. …

larger unemployment benefits increased U.K. unemployment post–World War I (WWI). The Benjamin-Kochin (BK) regression is easy … fluctuations created inefficient factor input allocations that drove up interwar U.K. unemployment. …