Labour supply and workforce

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

In the first of two articles looking at the Government’s role in the UK labour market, Michal Myck, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, explores the rationale for the New Deal.

The Swedish model of active labour market programmes is investigated in relation to some crucial institutional features with two aims: examining how successful it has been in the context of the high unemployment atypically experienced by Sweden in the 1990s and trying to derive some general lessons as to which type of programme works best.

This paper investigates how effective the Swedish labour market programmes have been in improving the opportunities of unemployed individuals over the last decade.

The paper evaluates the differential performance of the six main types of Swedish programmes that were available to adult unemployed workers enTitled to unemployment benefits in the 1990s: labour market training, workplace introduction, work experience placement, relief work, trainee replacement and employment subsidies.

This paper extends behavioural microsimulation modelling so that third round effectsof a policy change can be simulated.

Examining the labour market impact of in-work benefit reform in the United Kingdom.

This paper is an evaluation of the British labor market program the "New Deal for the Young Unemployed" using administrative panel data on individuals between 1982 and 1999.

Over the last two decades, the wage gap between men and women has narrowed, yet a sizeable discrepancy in earnings capacity remains between seemingly identical male and female workers.

In this paper I evaluate the New Deal in a historical and international context.

In this paper we study the sources of wage growth.

This evaluation focuses on the four models of EMA that were introduced into the

Exploring the attributes of the Working Families' Tax Credit programme.

In this report, the Committee considers the issue of tax equity between the employed and self-employed. This complex topic raises many questions, one of which relates to the way in which the tax system classifies workers. Do changing work patterns indicate the need for a new approach to classification for tax purposes? Is the case law that currently governs the area sufficiently robust and clear, especially in the light of the new burden placed upon it by the so-called IR35 legislation on personal service companies? What is the relation between classification of workers for taxation and their classification in other areas of law, particularly employment law? These are some of the issues addressed in this paper.

The income transfer systems for low-income families in the US and the UK try both to reduce

This paper uses microeconomic data from the U.K. Family Expenditure Surveys (FES) and the General Household Surveys (GHS) to describe and explain changes in the distribution of male wages.

The goals of income transfer systems in the US and the UK for low-income families are to reduce poverty and welfare dependency and encourage work.