The Economics of Social Security

Turning the screw - benefits for the unemployed 1979-88, Tony Atkinson and John Micklewright; is there a market failure in occupational sick pay?, Richard Disney and Steven Webb; trends in dependence on supplementary benefit, Jonathan Bradshaw and Meg Huby; social security and the economics of housing, Richard Berthoud; poverty, incentives and linear income taxation, Ravi Kanbur and Michael Keen; the effect of transfer programmes on work effort and human capital formation - evidence from the US, Robert Moffitt and Anuradha Rangarajan; income risk and income maintenance - implications for incentives to work, Stephen Jenkins and Jane Millar; male unemployment and women's work, Andrew Dilnot and Michael Kell; the poverty trap, tax cuts and the reform of social security, Andrew Dilnot and Graham Stark; the take-up of supplementary benefit - gaps in the "safety net"?, Vanessa Fry and Graham Stark; the reform of social security - a government view, Michael Portillo; the politics of social security - an assessment of the Fowler Review, Ruth Lister; the new pension scheme in Britain, John Creedy and Richard Disney; the 1988 social security reforms, Andrew Dilnot and Steven Webb.