Did working families' tax credit work? The impact of in-work support on labour supply in Great Britain

Labour Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 699-720

  Brewer, Mike ^a   Duncan, Alan ^a,c   Shephard, Andrew ^a   Suárez, María José ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete choice; Labour supply; Microsimulation; Take up; Working Families' Tax Credit

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749995464     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2005.11.002     Document Type: Article

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