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Cash by any other name? Evidence on labelling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment

Beatty, Timothy K. M.; Blow, Laura; Crossley, Thomas F.; … - 2011

Standard economic theory implies that the labelling of cash transfers or cash-equivalents (e.g. child benefits, food …

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The dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Britain

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2009

We analyze the dynamics of social assistance benefit (SA) receipt among working-age adults in Britain between 1991 and 2005. The decline in the annual SA receipt rate was driven by a decline in the SA entry rate, rather than by the SA exit rate (which actually declined too). We examine the...

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Cash by Any Other Name? Evidence on Labelling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment

Beatty, Timothy K. M.; Blow, Laura; Crossley, Thomas F.; … - 2012

Standard economic theory implies that the labelling of cash transfers or cash-equivalents (e.g. child benefits, food …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500210

The importance of independent income: Understanding the role of non-means-tested earnings replacement benefits

Bennett, Fran; Sutherland, Holly - 2011

We argue that independent entitlement to income is important. This implies that earnings replacement benefits paid to … individuals fulfil a range of functions which means-tested benefits, assessed at the family rather than individual level, cannot … of a scenario in which non-means-tested earnings replacement benefits are abolished and means-tested benefits and tax …

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