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1.The effects of past recessions on living standards


•What explains their different impacts on income inequality?
•What is the role of the tax and benefit system?


2.The protection households have against the next recession


•To what extent will the tax and benefit system help different groups?
•How will working-age benefit changes being rolled out affect that?

Authors

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Andrew Hood

Presentation details

Publisher
IFS

Suggested citation

Hood, A. (2017). 'Recessions, income inequality and the role of the tax and benefit system' [Presentation]. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/recessions-income-inequality-and-role-tax-and-benefit-system (accessed: 19 April 2024).

Grant

Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), 2015-2020 The transmission of labour market shocks through to the distribution of living standards

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