The rise of in-work benefits: policy, politics and evaluation

Joan Abbas and Ewan Robertson

Chapter 20 in Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies, 2023, pp 280-294 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In-work benefits (IWBs) are cash transfers or tax instruments used by governments to distribute resources to households undertaking paid work. As a relatively new area of labour market policy, governments typically use IWBs to alleviate in-work poverty and increase work incentives as part of a drive to ‘make work pay’. This chapter provides an overview of the emergence and key features of in-work benefits. We start by defining IWBs and outlining their unique characteristics. We then provide an overview of cross-national variation in IWBs, review evaluative and explanatory literature, and suggest further avenues of research.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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