Financial work incentives in Britain: comparisons over time and between family types

Published on 4 October 2006

This paper reviews various techniques for quantifying financial incentives to work, shows how financial work incentives have changed across the population since 1979, and estimates how much of these changes are due to changes in the tax and benefit system.

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This paper reviews various techniques for quantifying financial incentives to work, shows how financial work incentives have changed across the population since 1979, and estimates how much of these changes are due to changes in the tax and benefit system.

    Authors

    Mike Brewer

    Mike Brewer

    Stuart Adam
    Stuart Adam

    Senior Economist

    Stuart is a Senior Economist working in the Tax sector, and focuses on analysing the design of the tax and benefit system.

    Andrew Shephard
    Andrew Shephard

    Research Associate University of Pennsylvania

    Andrew is a Research Associate at the IFS and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

    Working Paper details

    DOI
    10.1920/wp.ifs.2006.0620
    Publisher
    IFS

    Suggested citation

    S, Adam and M, Brewer and A, Shephard. (2006). Financial work incentives in Britain: comparisons over time and between family types. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/financial-work-incentives-britain-comparisons-over-time-and-between-family-types (accessed: 19 April 2025).

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