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The increased adoption of means-tested benefits and tax credits in the UK and elsewhere has refocused employment policy on creating incentives for lower-skilled individuals to gain and retain employment. This has been the subject of increased attention in our research.
There are three main areas where further development is planned. First, labour supply decisions within the family. This area is particularly relevant given the growing importance of in-work benefits and childcare subsidies. Second, incentives in the tax and welfare system for employment retention and earnings enhancement once in the labour market. This is closely allied to the issue of wage progression and our research on human capital accumulation. Third, labour supply decisions for older workers and the complex interactions between early retirement incentives in pension systems, incapacity benefit rules and working opportunities for older people. Search
James Banks, Saffron Karlsen and Zoë Oldfield
Possibly one of the most pressing concerns in the debate on the ageing population is whether individuals will have adequate economic resources to maintain sufficient standards of living in retirement, and, if not, what the government can provide, in terms of health care and retirement income, to meet the needs of a population with an increasing fraction of older individuals.
This paper studies the relationship between demographic change and international capital flows using a large cross-country time-series dataset.
The UK pension system has undergone continual reform during the past 25 years.
Robert Chote
With life expectancy increasing and state pensions becoming relatively less generous, it is now conventional wisdom that people will have to work longer, save more or retire poorer than they might have thought a few years ago.
On 6 October 2003, the pension credit replaced the minimum income guarantee as the principal means-tested benefit for families containing an individual aged 60 or over. This Briefing Note examines the impact of this reform.
Andrew B Bernard, Stephen Redding, Peter K Schott and Helen Simpson
This paper shows that the location of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages.
Andrew B Bernard, Stephen Redding, Peter K Schott and Helen Simpson
This paper shows that the location of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages.
Richard Blundell, Howard Reed and Thomas Stoker
In addition to having much-publicised targets for child poverty, the current government has also set itself the equally ambitious goal ‘to end pensioner poverty in our country’ .
Raffaele Miniaci, Chiara Monfardini and Guglielmo Weber
In this paper we investigate the way consumption changes around retirement in Italy.
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   Past research into pension reform has contributed to evidence given to government on public service pensions.
Reform of the complex French state pension system was informed by recommendations by IFS researchers.
Changes to the benefit system recommended by IFS researchers have made working less than 16 hours a week more attractive to benefit recipients.
The Mirrlees Review shows the importance IFS attaches to high quality empirical evidence in the design of tax and benefit system.
Our ERA analysis contributed to the evaluation literature and informed the Government about the validity of the experimental findings.
IFS evaluated the Pathways to Work programme. This work proved key to the policy debate about how to get disability benefit claimants in work.
Proposals by IFS researchers to simplify the benefit system and strengthen the incentives for low-skilled adults to work have attracted the attention of Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
IFS researchers found that the In-Work Credit encouraged lone parents to leave benefit more quickly but did not increase work retention.
IFS researchers present and discuss new research on retirement saving with a group of business leaders and policy makers.
IFS researchers develop a model of the Mexican tax system that will be used by the Mexican Government analysts.
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