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Housing subsidies and work incentives in Great Britain
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Bingley , Paul and Walker, Ian (2001) Housing subsidies and work incentives in Great Britain. Economic Journal, 111 (471). C86-C103. doi:10.1111/1468-0297.00621
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00621
Abstract
The relationship between housing costs, wages and transfer programmes is complex yet helps determine the incentive to work for individuals in low income or high housing cost households. We estimate a static discrete choice labour supply model that allows for housing benefit programme participation, using samples of married women and unmarried women drawn from Great Britain Family Resources Surveys 1994/5-97/8. We find women are guile responsive to labour supply incentives and that housing benefit income has similar incentive effects to earned income which suggests any 'stigma' is small. Our analysis is complemented by simulating housing benefit and direct rent subsidy reforms.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Economic Journal | ||||
| Publisher: | Blackwell | ||||
| ISSN: | 0013-0133 | ||||
| Official Date: | May 2001 | ||||
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| Volume: | 111 | ||||
| Number: | 471 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 18 | ||||
| Page Range: | C86-C103 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1468-0297.00621 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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