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Did working families' tax credit work? The impact of in-work support on labour supply in Great Britain

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M Brewer, A Duncan, A Shephard… - Labour Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
In-work benefits are promoted as a way to make low-income families better off without
introducing adverse work incentives. In 1999, the structure of in-work benefits in the UK
changed, and their generosity almost doubled, through the introduction of Working ...
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[BOOK] Has Labour made work pay?

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M Brewer… - 2004 - eprints.ucl.ac.uk
A review of the Labour Government's success in improving the financial reward to work for
low-income families. Since 1997, the Labour Government has instigate a series of reforms
aimed at helping to make work pay more than not working, and to make work pay enough ...
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[PDF] Means testing and tax rates on earnings

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M Brewer, E Saez… - Dimensions of Tax Design: The Mirrlees …, 2010 - ifs.org.uk
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The setting of income tax rates and the generosity and structure of
income support programmes generate substantial controversy among policy-makers and
economists. At the centre is a trade-off between the goals of equity and efficiency: ...
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Evaluating the labour market impact of Working Families' Tax Credit using difference-in-differences

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R Blundell, M Brewer… - 2005 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
A difference-in-differences methodology cannot identify the labour market impact of WFTC
alone because other taxes and benefits changed at the same time as its introduction.
However, a comparison of the change in employment rates for parents against adults ...
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Optimal Income Taxation of Lone Mothers: An Empirical Comparison of the UK and Germany*

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R Blundell, M Brewer, P Haan… - The Economic …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Optimal tax rules are used to evaluate the optimality of taxation for lone mothers in Germany
and Britain. The theoretical model is combined with elasticities derived from the structural
estimation of lone mothers' labour supply. For both countries we do not find that in-work ...
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Inequality and living standards in Great Britain: some facts

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A Goodman, A Shephard - 2002 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
This Briefing Note is designed to provide some basic facts concerning living standards and
inequality in Great Britain. Wherever possible, up-to-date sources have been given for
further reading. Accompanying this Briefing Note is a spreadsheet of useful statistics ...
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The poverty trade-off: Work incentives and income redistribution in Britain

S Adam, M Brewer… - 2006 - eprints.ucl.ac.uk
Can we reconcile the conflict between policies to help people on low incomes by providing
direct financial support and those which encourage them to earn more? Two of the
strategies used by governments to help people on low incomes–providing direct financial ...
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[CITATION] Did Working Families

M Brewer, A Duncan, A Shephard… - Tax Credit work, 2005
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The impact of the New Deal for young people on the labour market: a four year assessment

R Blundell, H Reed… - The Labour Market …, 2003 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract Book description: An up to date assessment of the UK labour market presented by
leading national and international experts in the field. Aimed at interested non-specialist
readers it presents non-technical analysis of the impact recent policy development such ...
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Inequality under the Labour government

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A Shephard - 2003 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
This Briefing Note will provide a brief analysis of changes to income inequality since the
Labour government came to power in 1997.1 The most recent data from 2001-02 show that
there has been little change in income inequality since 2000-01. An implication of this is ...
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Did working families' tax credit work? The final evaluation of the impact of in-work support on parents' labour supply and take-up behaviour in the UK

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M Brewer, A Duncan, A Shephard… - 2005 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
With micro-data from before and after a major reform in 1999 to the structure and form of in-
work transfers in the UK, this paper uses a structural model of labour supply and programme
participation to evaluate the labour market impact of Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC). ...
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Did Working Families' Tax Credit work? Analysing the impact of in-work support on labour supply and programme participation

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M Brewer, A Duncan, A Shephard… - 2003 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
With micro-data from before and after a major reform in 1999 to the structure and form of in-
work transfers in the UK, this paper uses a structural model of labour supply and programme
participation to show the impact of a reform to in-work support (Working Families' Tax ...
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Sharing in the nation's prosperity? Pensioner poverty in Britain

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A Goodman, M Myck… - 2003 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
This commentary reviews the government's tax and benefit reforms affecting pensioners to
date, and examines the evidence from the latest official low income figures on the
government's record on pensioner poverty so far.
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Employment, hours of work and the optimal taxation of low income families

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R Blundell… - IZA Discussion Paper No. 5745, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The optimal design of low income support is examined using a structural labour
supply model. The approach incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work,
childcare costs and the detailed non-convexities of the tax and transfer system. The ...
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Financial work incentives in Britain: comparisons over time and between family types

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M Brewer, S Adam… - 2006 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
This paper reviews various techniques for quantifying financial incentives to work, shows
how financial work incentives have changed across the population since 1979, and
estimates how much of these changes are due to changes in the tax and benefit system.
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The impact of tax and benefit changes between April 2000 and April 2003 on parents' labour supply

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R Blundell, M Brewer… - 2004 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
This Briefing Note provides the first published estimates of the labour market impact of the
new tax credits, and the tax and benefit reforms that preceded them, on families with
children. Specifically, this note examines all personal tax and benefit reforms introduced ...
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Employment and the labour market

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M Brewer… - 2005 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Since 1997, there have been changes in rates of employment, unemployment and inactivity.
These changes have coincided with the Labour government's" Making Work Pay" agenda,
which has seen the introduction of in-work tax credits, the national minimum wage and ...
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Employment, hours of work and the optimal design of earned income tax credits

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R Blundell… - 2008 - eprints.ucl.ac.uk
This paper examines the optimal schedule of marginal tax rates and the design of earned
income tax credits. The analysis is based on a structural labour supply model which
incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work and the detailed non- ...
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[CITATION] Evaluating the labour market impact of Working Families

R Blundell, M Brewer… - Tax Credit using difference-in-differences.'HM …, 2005
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Living standards, inequality and poverty

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M Brewer, A Goodman, J Shaw… - 2005 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
In this Election Briefing Note, we assess what has happened to living standards under
Labour, setting out how average incomes, income inequality and poverty have changed
since 1996-97. We compare these changes with what happened under previous ...
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[CITATION] How has child poverty changed under the Labour government? An update

M Brewer, A Goodman, A Shephard… - 2003 - opengrey.eu
How has child poverty changed under the Labour government? An update. Mike Brewer, Alissa
Goodman, Andrew Shephard, Institute for Fiscal Studies (United Kingdom); Briefing Note, 2003.
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[PDF] The employment impact of recent labour market reforms: A Bank of England Report

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R Blundell, M Brewer, A Duncan… - report to the Bank …, 2004 - nottinghamcourses.com
*This work was part-funded by the Bank of England and part-funded by the ESRC Research
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy. Data from the Labour Force Survey is
made available through the UK Data Archive (UKDA). Data from the Family Resources ...
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[PDF] 7. In-work benefits and labour supply ()

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M Brewer… - EUROPEAN ECONOMY, 2006 - edis.sk
The make-work-pay policy agenda describes a series of reforms introduced by the UK
Labour Government since 1997 with the twin aims of making work pay more than not
working, and making work pay enough to help families avoid poverty. In common with ...
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[PDF] FORTAX: Reference Manual

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A Shephard - University College London, Mimeo, 2009 - princeton.edu
The FORTAX project is centered around the development of the FORTAX library, a
microsimulation tax library programmed in Fortran by Andrew Shephard, with the UK system
implementation programmed by Andrew Shephard and Jonathan Shaw. It provides ...
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[PDF] Optimal household labor income tax and transfer programs

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M Brewer, E Saez… - Dimensions of Tax Design: The Mirrlees …, 2010 - ifs.org.uk
Abstract This paper proposes an overview of the lessons that have been learned over the
last 30 years in the economics literature for the optimal design of household tax and transfer
programs and offers an application to the case of the United Kingdom. We review the tax ...
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[PDF] Equilibrium search and tax credit reform

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A Shephard - University College London, mimeo, 2009 - sole-jole.org
Abstract This paper develops an empirical equilibrium job search model with wage posting,
and uses it to analyse the labour market impact of the British Working Families' Tax Credit
(WFTC) reform. The model allows for a rich characterisation of the labour market, with ...
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[PDF] Better Coating for the Silver Bullet: Improving Conditional Cash Transfers in Urban Mexico

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O Attanasio, C Meghir, A Santiago… - … , United Kingdom and …, 2008 - homepages.ucl.ac.uk
Conditional Cash Transfers programmes have been hailed as one of the most effective
policy instruments to tackle long run poverty while at the same time ameliorating life
conditions for poor households in the short run. The hype that CCT have received is amply ...
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[PDF] Improving the education component of Conditional Cash Transfers in urban settings

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OP Attanasio, C Meghir, A Santiago… - … Bank, Working Paper, 2008 - redligare.org
Abstract The conditional cash transfer programme Oportunidades has shown to be an
important tool in increasing school enrolment, particularly in rural areas. However, success
in urban areas has been moderate and there should be room for substantial ...
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[PDF] Optimal household labor income tax and transfer programs: An application to the UK

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M Brewer, E Saez… - For the Mirrlees Review, 2007 - elsa.berkeley.edu
Abstract This paper proposes an overview of the lessons that have been learned over the
last 30 years in the economics literature for the optimal design of household tax and transfer
programs, and offers an application to the United Kingdom. We review the tax and transfer ...
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[CITATION] Means-testing and tax rates on earnings, in 'The Mirrlees Review: Reforming the Tax System for the 21st Century'

M Brewer, E Saez… - 2008 - Oxford University Press. …
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How has child poverty changed since 1998-99? An update

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M Brewer, A Goodman… - 2003 - eprints.ucl.ac.uk
An additional 100,000 children were lifted out of poverty on the most commonly cited of the
government's relative poverty measures between 2000-01 and 2001-02. The most recent
figures show 3.8 million children (roughly 30 per cent of all children) in Britain in ...
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[PDF] ARCHITECTURE AS THE PRACTICE OF DESIGN AND THE ORGANISATION OF PRACTICE

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S Danks, A Shephard… - arcom.ac.uk
Two dissertations, based on qualitative research, from the MSc in Construction Project
Management at University of Central England, UK on the management of architectural
practices and the management of design are summarised and related to each other ...
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[CITATION] Voluntary Agency

A Shephard - Creative computing in health and social care, 1996 - John Wiley & Son Ltd
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Structural models of the labour market and the impact and design of tax policies

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AJ Shephard - 2010 - eprints.ucl.ac.uk
... and family for their encouragement, love and support throughout the years. Finally, I thank Xiaoying
who has given me the extra strength, motivation and love nec- essary to get things done. Andrew
Shephard London, June 2010 Page 6. Data Acknowledgements ...
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