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Disability risk, disability insurance and life cycle behavior
Low, Hamish; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2010
This paper provides a life-cycle framework for weighing up the insurance value of disability benefi ts against the … parameters governing the disability insurance program, using indirect inference and longitudinal data on consumption, disability … status, disability insurance receipt, and wages. We use our estimates to characterize the effectiveness of the disability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275750
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Disability risk, disability insurance and life cycle behavior
Low, Hamish; Pistaferri, Luigi - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2010
The Disability Insurance (DI) program in the US is a large social insurance program that offers income replacement …. This paper has three aims: We provide a framework for weighing up the insurance value of disability benefi…ts against the … genuine need. We use our model and estimates to characterize the economic effects of the disability insurance and to consider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465980
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Does welfare reform affect fertility? Evidence from the UK
Brewer, Mike; Ratcliffe, Anita; Smith, Sarah - 2008
In 1999 the UK government made major reforms to the system of child-contingent benefits, including the introduction of Working Families' Tax Credit and an increase in means-tested Income Support for families with children. Between 1999-2003 government spending per-child on these benefits rose by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275722
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Five years of social security reform in the UK
Brewer, Mike; Clark, Tom; Wakefield, Matthew - 2002
considered odd that Labour has left Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit unreformed, especially since a good chance to reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292973
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Getting the unemployed back to work: the role of targeted wage subsidies
Bell, Brian; Blundell, Richard; Reenen, John Van - 1999
This paper examines alternative approaches to wage subsidy programmes. It does this in the context of a recent active labour market reform for the young unemployed in Britain. This ӎew DealÔ reform and the characteristics of the target group are examined in detail. We discuss theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330357
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Individual choice of pension arrangement as a pension reform strategy
Disney, Richard; Palacios, Robert; Whitehouse, Edward - 1999
The paper examines social security (public pension) reforms in which the programme is partially shifted from a public unfunded basis to a private, prefunded, basis. It focuses on reforms where individuals have a choice in switching from public funded to private unfunded programmes (as in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330361
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Marriage, labour supply and the dynamics of the social safety net
Low, Hamish W.; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - 2018
The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States. We use variation by state and across demographic groups to provide reduced form evidence showing that such limits led to a fall in welfare claims (partly due to "banking" benefi ts for future use), a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028659
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Can't work or won't work: Quasi-experimental evidence on work search requirements for single parents
Avram, Silvia; Brewer, Mike; Salvatori, Andrea - 2016
benefit. Consistent with the predictions of a simple search model, the work search requirements have heterogeneous impacts … some (especially those with weak previous labour market attachments) to move onto disability benefits (with no search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786825
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Why has in-work poverty risen in Britain?
Bourquin, Pascale; Cribb, Jonathan; Waters, Tom; Xu, Xiaowei - 2019
-distribution towards low-income working families pushed down relative in-work poverty by 2.1 percentage points. This was due to benefit … been partially reversed by reductions to benefit entitlements since 2010-11. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265310
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Does welfare reform affect fertility? Evidence from the UK
Brewer, Mike; Ratcliffe, Anita; Smith, Sarah - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2008
In 1999 the UK government made major reforms to the system of child-contingent benefits, including the introduction of Working Families' Tax Credit and an increase in means-tested Income Support for families with children. Between 1999-2003 government spending per-child on these benefits rose by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005509509