Labour supply and workforce

How and whether judges should be held accountable is a key issue in the design of a legal system.

In this paper we discuss the issues involved with the evaluation of social interventions and with the attempts at 'scaling them up'.

In this paper we discuss the issues involved with the evaluation of social interventions and with the attempts at 'scaling them up'.

This paper presents evidence on the relationship between shocks torelative male wages, and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the1990s decade, which is a period characterized by high volatility.

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia onthe wage distribution.

The child tax credit and working tax credit were introduced in April 2003. When fully operational, the child tax credit will represent the majority of government financial support for children. It is designed to simplify the system of financial support for parents, and provides support that is means-tested against family income. The working tax credit is designed to make work more financially attractive. It means that people with or without children in work and on a low income may receive extra help from the State. This Briefing Note looks at the changes that have been made and asks why the new tax credits have been introduced, how they work, the cost and distributional impact, the impact on work incentives and what levels of take-up we might expect.

This briefing note is provided as evidence to the Work and Pensions Select Committee as to whether childcare could be provided for all parents who need it to help them to work. It looks at the ways in which this could be achieved.

We consider the impact of taxation when investors face a discrete choice between two or more mutually exclusive projects.

From 1998 Q4 to 2002 Q4, employment among people aged 50 and over

We construct and estimate an equilibrium search model with on-the-job-search.

We investigate the geographic concentration and agglomeration of production activity in the UK at the four-digit industry level using a variety of measures.

We investigate the evolution and the sources of aggregate employment reallocation in the United States in the 1971-2000 March files of the Current Population Survey.

The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has commissioned a longitudinal evaluation