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Improving Incentives for the Low-Paid

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  1. Alex Bowen

    1. National Economic Development Office, UK

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  2. Ken Mayhew

    1. National Economic Development Office, UK

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This collection of papers considers how people who are low paid can be given better opportunities in the British labour market. Topics considered include how the workings of the tax and benefits systems might be improved, and why some jobs are low paid in the first place.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Incentives for the Low-Paid: Setting the Scene

    • Alex Bowen, Dominic Brewer, Ken Mayhew
    Pages 1-54

  3. Scaling the ‘Poverty Mountain’: Methods to Extend Incentives to all Workers

    • Tony Atkinson, Holly Sutherland
    Pages 55-71

  4. The Tax and Benefit Systems, and Their Effects on People With Low Earnings Potential

    • Hermione Parker
    Pages 73-119

  5. The Poverty Trap After the Fowler Reforms

    • Patrick Minford
    Pages 121-138

  6. Training for the Low-paid’

    • Ewart Keep
    Pages 139-180

  7. Job Training, Individual Opportunity and Low Pay

    • Paul Ryan
    Pages 181-223

  8. Lower Incomes and Employment: A CBI Analysis

    • CBI
    Pages 225-261

  9. Low Pay — A Trade Union Perspective

    • TUC
    Pages 263-282

  10. Incentives for the Low-Paid: The Issues for Public Policy

    • Alex Bowen, Ken Mayhew
    Pages 283-298

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 299-308
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  • National Economic Development Office, UK

    Alex Bowen, Ken Mayhew

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