Financial incentives for welfare recipients with no other income

Authors

  • Tony Burton

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v7i3.4392

Keywords:

welfare payments, labour market participation, Welfare Working Group, economic analysis of work incentives, effective marginal tax rate

Abstract

The Welfare Working Group final report in 2011 focused on households whose working age members have a marginal attachment to the labour market. The main conclusion of this article is that a better understanding of the available options is needed if the welfare system is to motivate people in those households to move into paid work.

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Policy Quarterly volume 7 number 3 2011

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2011-08-01

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Vol. 7 No. 3 (2011): Policy Quarterly

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