Improving Incentives for the Low Paid
Published in October 1990
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-333-52544-9 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
20ill.
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 148 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-52544-9 (9780333525449)
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Content
Incentives for the low paid - setting the scene, Alex Bowen et al; scaling the "poverty mountain" - methods to extend incentives to all workers, Tony Atkinson and Holly Sutherland; the tax-benefit system and the low paid, Hermione Parker; the poverty trap after the Fowler reforms, Patrick Minford; training the low paid, Ewart Keep; job training, individual opportunity and low pay, Paul Ryan; low incomes and employment - a CBI analysis, CBI; low pay - a trade union perspective, TUC; the issues for public policy, Alex Bowen and Keny Mayhew.