Improving Incentives for the Low-Paid

by Alex Bowen, Ken Mayhew

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333525456
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/01/1990
Edition description:	1990
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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.