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Financial work incentives in Britain: comparisons over time and between family types

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Stuart Adam () (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
Mike Brewer () (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
Andrew Shephard () (Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London)

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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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Paper provided by Institute for Fiscal Studies in its series IFS Working Papers with number W06/20.

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Date of creation: Oct 2006
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