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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
The fiscal and distributive impacts of three reforms to the social security pension system in the UK are evaluated.
Andrew B Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen and Peter K Schott
This paper examines the role of international trade in the reallocation of U.S. manufacturing activity within and across industries from 1977 to 1997.
Tim Besley and Abigail Payne
How and whether judges should be held accountable is a key issue in the design of a legal system.
Orazio Attanasio, Pinelopi K. Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik
We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia onthe wage distribution.
In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/1989 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socioeconomic status and health outcomes.
Tim Besley and Andrea Prat
Gabriele Beissel-Durrant and Chris Skinner
Measurement errors in survey data on hourly pay may lead to serious upward bias in low pay
These slides were presented at a SEDAP conference on the 10-11 April 2003.
In this Briefing Note, we discuss whether or not the government's proposed reforms are likely to help individuals to make choices about how to provide for their retirement that are appropriate to their circumstances. We focus particularly on whether or not the proposals might prompt those individuals who are not thought to be providing sufficiently for their retirement to save more each year or to retire at an older age than might otherwise have been the case.
In this Briefing Note, we discuss whether or not the government's proposed reforms are likely to help individuals to make choices about how to provide for their retirement that are appropriate to their circumstances. We focus particularly on whether or not the proposals might prompt those individuals who are not thought to be providing sufficiently for their retirement to save more each year or to retire at an older age than might otherwise have been the case.
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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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