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Current search: 'Social Policy'

  1. Written evidence from Understanding Society the UK Household Longitudinal Study (WSN0051) [Work and Pensions Select Committee. Welfare safety net inquiry]

    1. Social Exclusion
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Social Policy

  2. Gender and economic inequality

    Susan Harkness

    1. Economics
    2. Social Policy

  3. Opinion: scaling up policy impact

    Raj Patel

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Social Change
    3. Public Policy
    4. Government
    5. Research
    6. Societies
    7. Surveys
    8. Social Policy

  4. Looking forward: afterword

    Susan Harkness

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Social Change
    3. Public Policy
    4. Research
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Surveys
    7. Social Policy

  5. Measuring active and healthy ageing in Europe

    Asghar Zaidi, Katrin Gasior, Eszter Zolyomi, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Social Policy

  6. The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction: the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives

    Diego Collado, Bea Cantillon, Karel Van den Bosch, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Social Policy

  7. Social assistance performance in Central and Eastern Europe: a pre-transfer post-transfer comparison

    Silvia Avram

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Social Policy

  8. Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings: evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden

    Sonia Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Labour Market
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Social Policy

  9. The effects of reform scenarios for unemployment benefits and social assistance on work incentives and poverty in Lithuania

    Jekaterina Navicke, Silvia Avram, and Lilas Demmou

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation
    7. Social Policy

  10. Benefits, pensions, tax credits and direct taxes

    John Hills, Paola De Agostini, and Holly Sutherland

    1. Pensions
    2. Economics
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation
    7. Social Policy

  11. The labour supply effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its implications for parental altruism

    Angus Holford

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Social Policy

  12. Were we really all in it together? The distributional effects of the UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes

    Paola De Agostini, John Hills, and Holly Sutherland

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Government
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation
    6. Economic Policy
    7. Social Policy

  13. The labour supply effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its implications for parental altruism

    Angus Holford

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Social Policy

  14. Impact on alcohol purchasing of a ban on multi-buy promotions: a quasi-experimental evaluation comparing Scotland with England and Wales

    R. Nakamura, M. Suhrcke, R. Pechey, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Social Policy

  15. Assessing the distributional impact of reforms to disability benefits for older people in the UK: implications of alternative measures of income and disability costs

    Ruth Hancock and Stephen Pudney

    1. Older People
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Social Policy

  16. State support for early childhood education and care in England

    Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, and Claire Crawford

    1. Childbearing: Fertility
    2. Social Policy
    3. Caregiving

  17. Simulating the costs and benefits of a Europe-wide Basic Income scheme for Children

    Horacio Levy, Manos Matsaganis, and Holly Sutherland

    1. Young People
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Social Policy

  18. Fairly sharing the social impact of the crisis in Greece

    Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou, Manos Matsaganis, Chrysa Leventi, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Social Policy

  19. Outcomes of social assistance in Central and Eastern Europe: a pre-transfer post-transfer comparison

    Silvia Avram

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Social Policy

  20. Social assistance in Central and Eastern Europe: features and characteristics

    Silvia Avram

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Social Policy

  21. Lone Parent Obligations: an impact assessment

    Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, and Andrea Salvatori

    1. Labour Market
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Social Policy

  22. Lone Parent Obligations: an impact assessment: research summary

    Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, and Andrea Salvatori

    1. Labour Market
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Social Policy

  23. The impact of the National Minimum Wage on employment retention, hours and job entry: a report to the Low Pay Commission

    Mark L. Bryan, Andrea Salvatori, and Mark P. Taylor

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Wages And Earnings
    3. Social Policy

  24. Ending child poverty by 2020: progress made and lessons learned

    Kitty Stewart, Jonathan Bradshaw, Mark Tomlinson, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Poverty
    3. Social Policy

  25. Developing effective ex ante social impact assessment with a focus on methodology, tools and data sources, Brussels, 17-18 November 2011: synthesis report

    Mike Brewer

    1. Law And Legislation
    2. Labour Market
    3. Social Policy

  26. The impact of the National Minimum Wage on earnings, employment and hours through the recession: a report to the Low Pay Commission

    Mark L. Bryan, Andrea Salvatori, and Mark P. Taylor

    1. Labour Market
    2. Wages And Earnings
    3. Social Policy

  27. The neglected dimension of well-being: analyzing the development of 'conversion effciency' in Great Britain

    Martin Binder and Tom Broekel

    1. Well Being
    2. Social Policy

  28. Child and working-age poverty from 2010 to 2020

    Mike Brewer, James Browne, and Robert Joyce

    1. Poverty
    2. Social Policy

  29. Inequality, poverty and the crisis in Greece

    Manos Matsaganis and Chrysa Leventi

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Social Policy

  30. 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, et al.

    1. Social Groups
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Social Policy

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