Taxes and benefits

Recent falls in poverty amongst those aged 65 and over are unlikely to continue after 2007-08, even after the implementation of the proposals outlined in the Government's Pensions White Paper.

This report provides a description and quantitative analysis of the financial support for children that families in Northern Ireland (NI) receive from the government compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, and of how this has changed since 1997.

This paper asks whether job seekers use short-term jobs to finance consumptoin while searching for other employment.

We provide evidence on the impact of a large-scale construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina.

This paper presents a tour of welfare reform in the UK since the last change of government, summarising the most important changes in active labour market policies, and in measures intended to strengthen financial incentives to work.

This report explores, in detail, how representative of the full eligible population the ERA study participants are.

We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours, and non-participation in employment.

This Briefing Note provides an update on trends in living standards, income inequality and poverty.

From April 2004, a set of Government policies designed to help lone parents into work have been piloted in various combinations in a number of Jobcentre Plus districts in Great Britain.

In-work benefits are promoted as a way to make low-income families better off without introducing adverse work incentives.

We derive distributional effects for a non-cooperative alternative to the unitary model of household behaviour.

This paper investigates how and when differences in work behaviour between men and women develop, focusing on the evolution of the gender gaps over the period of family development.

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries.

In this paper we study the impact of Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge using information contained in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for individuals aged between 16 and 20.