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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social … the private sector, and a unification of the different labour market programmes. -- Institutions ; incentives ; reforms … ; labour supply ; disability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003912101
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Social Protection Dualism, De-Industrialization and Cost Containment
Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin; Saunders, Adam; Naczyk, Marek - 2015
Purpose – European social protection arrangements have undergone significant transformations since the mid-1970s. However, while the existing literature has focused on reforms in public welfare arrangements, an analysis of both public and private social protection is needed to understand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036266
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Trends in Male Labor Force Participation and Retirement : Some Evidence on the Role of Pensions and Social Security in the 1970's and 1980's
Anderson, Patricia M.; Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, … - 1999
state retirement of men. Work incentives associated with pension coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily … from the 1969-79 Retirement History Study and the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Consumer Finances. Simulations with a structural … retirement model suggest that the long-run effects of changes in pension plans and social security account for about a quarter of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182211
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Lessons for an Aging Society : The Political Sustainability of Social Security Systems
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - 2004
deliver a strong policy implication: an increase in the effective retirement age always decreases the size of the system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074711
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Were we really all in it together? : the distributional effects of the 2010 - 2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes ; an end-of-term update
De Agostini, Paola; Hills, John R.; Sutherland, Holly - 2015
This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct taxes between the UK Elections in May 2010 and in May 2015. It also looks ahead to the longer-term effects of changes and plans that were announced by the 2010-2015 Coalition government,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317097
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010385004
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The effect of pension wealth on employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2022
close to retirement. The age pattern is partly explained by the positive effect of pension wealth on disability pensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472034
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The effect of pension wealth on employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2022
close to retirement. The age pattern is partly explained by the positive effect of pension wealth on disability pensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476768
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The effect of pension wealth on employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2023
close to retirement. The age pattern is partly explained by the positive effect of pension wealth on disability pensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014370431