The impact of a time-limited, targeted in-work benefit in the medium-term: an evaluation of In Work Credit

Mike Brewer, James Browne, Haroon Chowdry and Claire Crawford ()
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Haroon Chowdry: Institute for Fiscal Studies
Claire Crawford: Institute for Fiscal Studies and University of Birmingham

No W11/14, IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract: Conventional in-work benefits or tax credits are now well established as a policy instrument for increasing labour supply and tackling poverty. A different sort of in-work credit is one where the payments are time-limited, conditional on previous receipt of welfare, and, perhaps, not means-tested. Such a design is cheaper, and perhaps better targeted, but potentially less effective. Using administrative data, this paper evaluates one such policy for lone parents in the UK which was piloted in around one third of the country. It finds that the policy did increase flows off welfare and into work, and that these positive effects did not diminish after recipients reached the 12 month time-limit for receiving the supplement. Most of the impact arose by speeding up welfare off-flows: the job retention of programme recipients was good, but this cannot be attributed to the programme itself.

Keywords: In-work benefits; labour supply; time-limits; welfare; lone parents. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H21 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-08-01
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Working Paper: The impact of a time-limited, targeted in-work benefit in the medium-term: an evaluation of In Work Credit (2012)
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