Labour supply and workforce

This paper analyses food Engel curves amongst the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia.

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia.

Alongside a series of cuts that will reduce welfare spending by £18 billion per year by 2014–15, the UK government announced in November 2010 plans to integrate and simplify means-tested welfare benefits and in-work tax credits for working-age adults into a single programme, to be known as Universal Credit and to be phased in from October 2013.

Welcome to the second edition of the CAYT digest.

This paper examines geographic mobility and housing downsizing at older ages in Britain and the USA.

In this paper, we use an economic model to analyse data from a major randomized social experiment, namely PROGRESA in Mexico, and to evaluate its impact on school participation.

In the context of a difficult 2011 labour market, this report examines the early educational and labour market transitions made by young people.

A DfE research brief from the Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT).

This paper derives analytical expressions for the revenue elasticity of complex income tax systems, as applied to tax units and in aggregate.