The Poverty Trade-off. Work Incentives and Income Redistribution in Britain.
Adam, Stuart; Brewer, Mike; Shephard, Andrew
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paperback. Two strategies that governments have to help people on low incomes - providing them with financial support directly, and encouraging them to earn more - generally conflict. This report provides new evidence on the trade-off between redistributing income and improving work incentives. FREE PDF version available online at www.jrf.org.uk Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFA; JPQB; KCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 5. Weight in Grams: 259.
Two strategies that governments have to help people on low incomes - providing them with financial support directly, and encouraging them to earn more - generally conflict. This report provides new evidence on the trade-off between redistributing income and improving work incentives. Drawing on large-scale survey data spanning the last 26 years, the report analyses the incomes and work incentives facing thousands of individuals and families, and how they are affected by the tax and benefit system. It shows how work incentives vary across the population and how this has changed since 1979 and estimates how far tax and benefit ... Read more
Two strategies that governments have to help people on low incomes - providing them with financial support directly, and encouraging them to earn more - generally conflict. This report provides new evidence on the trade-off between redistributing income and improving work incentives. Drawing on large-scale survey data spanning the last 26 years, the report analyses the incomes and work incentives facing thousands of individuals and families, and how they are affected by the tax and benefit system. It shows how work incentives vary across the population and how this has changed since 1979 and estimates how far tax and benefit ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861348630
SKU
V9781861348630
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Adam, Stuart; Brewer, Mike; Shephard, Andrew
Stuart Adam is a senior research economist, Mike Brewer a programme director and Andrew Shephard a PhD scholar, all at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. They conduct research into how tax and benefit policies affect households in the UK.
Reviews for The Poverty Trade-off. Work Incentives and Income Redistribution in Britain.
"The report is full of useful research results which will be of interest to anyone who wants to study in detail the ways in which tax and benefit changes affect financial incentives to enter the employment market or progress within it." Citizen's Income