Keeping up or falling behind? the impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty

Fiscal Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 467-498

  Sutherland, Holly ^a   Hancock, Ruth ^b   Hills, John ^c   Zantomio, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benefits; Income; Indexation; Taxes; Uprating

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349111847     PISSN: 01435671     EISSN: 14755890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2008.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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