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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
This paper tries to assess whether or not we have any empirical evidence of links between early retirement and youth unemployment.
The aim of this report is to explore how the findings from the experimental research on ERA relate to the impacts that would have been experienced, on average, by all the people who were eligible for the programme, had they participated in the study.
This presentation was given at the launch of the 2010 Green Budget.
This presentation was given on 18 January 2010 to the Economics Departments at Sussex University.
This paper reviews how income-support systems affacte labour force participation in the UK.
Fatih Guvenen, Burhanettin Kuruscu and Serdar Ozkan
This paper studies the role of labour income tax policies when looking at wage inequalities.
We examine the wages of low skilled Canadian workers over the last quarter century and argue that they fit with an implicit contracting model with re-negotiation.
This public economics lecture was delivered at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in October 2009.
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