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The Equalities Act 2010 puts an obligation on the government to give 'due consideration' to how its policies affect gender inequalities. In this paper, we show some simple ways in which the government could examine the impact of tax and benefit reforms on men and women using household level data that it already has available.
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James Browne
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- DOI
- 10.1920/bn.ifs.2011.00118
- Publisher
- IFS
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Browne, J. (2011). The impact of tax and benefit reforms by sex: some simple analysis. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/impact-tax-and-benefit-reforms-sex-some-simple-analysis (accessed: 29 March 2024).
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