IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/niesru/v219y2012i1pr53-r64.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Time-Limited in-Work Benefits in the UK: A Review of Recent Evidence

Author

Listed:
  • Haroon Chowdry

Abstract

This paper reviews three UK-based welfare-to-work programmes featuring time-limited financial incentives to leave out-of-work benefits for employment. The policies considered are (i) the Employment Retention and Advancement demonstration, aimed at lone parents and the long-term unemployed; (ii) In-Work Credit, aimed at lone parents on welfare; (iii) Pathways to Work, aimed at recipients of incapacity benefits. I illustrate the difficulties in extrapolating from specific findings to general policy-relevant conclusions. Finally, I depict the challenge facing evaluators in future and point to the directions in which evaluation will need to develop if it is to contribute more fully to policy-relevant evaluation.

Suggested Citation

  • Haroon Chowdry, 2012. "Time-Limited in-Work Benefits in the UK: A Review of Recent Evidence," National Institute Economic Review, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, vol. 219(1), pages 53-64, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:niesru:v:219:y:2012:i:1:p:r53-r64
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://ner.sagepub.com/content/219/1/R53.abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:niesru:v:219:y:2012:i:1:p:r53-r64. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/niesruk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.