Benefits

According to the econometric literature, unemployed jobseekers who use a Public Employment Agency (PEA) have longer unemployment spells than those choosing alternative search methods.

This report analyses the changing economic positions of tenants in subsidised public housing. It shows how low their incomes are today, how these low incomes interact with higher rents and the housing benefit system to reduce their returns to work and looks at a number of reforms to the benefit system.

The basic state retirement pension is payable irrespective of means but it is a contributory benefit, not a universal benefit.

The exact measurement of the welfare costs of tax and price reform requires a detailed knowledge of individual preferences. Typically, first-order approximations of welfare costs are calculated avoiding detailed knowledge of substitution effects.

A model is developed that allows for a layoff rate and a job arrival rate in the intertemporal choice of consumption and labor market state.

It is 20 years ago this July that the committee under the chairmanship of James Meade was set up by the Institute for Fiscal Studies to take a fundamental look at the UK tax structure.

This paper compares the employment behaviour of innovative firms with those that are less technologically advanced.

This paper contrasts Samuelson's (1964) definition of "true economic depreciation" with the use of this term that has become standard in the more recent literature on neutral business taxes.

Our paper evaluates the labour supply effects of 'in work' benefit reforms in the UK, using the means-tested benefit reforms of July 1995 as an example.

The purpose of this working paper is to document the current TAXBEN model, given the changes that have occurred since 1990.

This paper aims to investigate the impact of the UK Family Credit (FC) scheme (an in-work income transfer programme, i.e. one which is only payable to individuals who are in work) on the labour supply of lone mothers.

We study transitions in and out of work for men over the age of forty in order to investigate the principal determinants of retirement age.