Labour supply and workforce

This is the bibliography for three reports on labour supply estimation, developed by IFS for HMT and DWP.

This reports looks at pilots for reforms to incapacity benefit.

We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators.

We analyze the impact of product market competition on unemployment and wages, and how this depends on labour market institutions.

This notes looks at discrepancies in the numbers of lone parents claiming tax credits and relates this to the recent child poverty figures.

This Briefing Note compares five recent studies that have examined the labour market impact of the Working Families' Tax Credit and related reforms between 1999 and 2002.

This article looks and income and substitution effects and demand for nursery education.

This report presents the findings of research into how and when differences in work behaviour between men and women develop, focusing on the evolution of the gender gaps immediately after childbirth and during the initial years of family development.

This research is part of a large evaluation effort, undertaken by a consortium formed by IFS, Econometria and SEI, which has considered the effects of Familias en Acción on a variety of outcomes one year after its implementation.

This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal labor and firm performance.

This report presents the final stage of the Employer Training Pilots impact study.

In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training.

The purpose of this report is to examine the consistency and reliability of the activityhistory data collected in the FACS. Using data from the first five waves of the FACSand from the first thirteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) as acomparison survey, carefully matched samples have been analysed to calibrate thecompleteness and consistency of the activity history data collected in the FACS andto test whether the FACS generates labour market statistics similar to the comparisonsurvey.

We extend the collective model of household behavior to allow for the existence of public consumption.

This paper uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate single women's labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s.

In 2003, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) commissioned the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) to estimate a model of labour market transitions, in other words, of moves into and out of work (paid employment).