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Welfare State Programme Discussion Papers

WSP Discussion Paper
The Emergence of Lone Motherhood as a Problem in Late Twentieth Century Britain

Hilary Land and Jane Lewis

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August 1997

WSP Discussion Paper
Poverty and Family Background in Greece:The Role of Father's Occupation and Education

Christos Papatheodorou

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August 1997

WSP Discussion Paper
Categorical Benefits in Welfare States: Findings from Britain and Israel. Now published in International Social Security Review, 51(1), 1998

John Gal

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June 1997

WSP Discussion Paper
Minimum Pensions and Safety Nets in Old Age: A Comparative Analysis

Martin Evans and Jane Falkingham

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June 1997

WSP Discussion Paper
Stability of Estimates of the Compensationfor Danger

Reza Arabsheibani and A Marin

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March 1997

WSP Discussion Paper
What Price Security? Assessing Private Insurance for Long-Term Care, Income Replacement During Incapacity, and Unemployment for Mortgagors

Tania Burchardt

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February 1997

WSP Discussion Paper
Growing Old in the 21st Century: Lessons from Four Cohorts in Britain 1974-93

Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Student Loans: Where are we now? Repayment Rates for Student Loans: Some sensitivity tests

Nicholas Barr, Iain Crawford and Jane Falkingham

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November 1996

WSP Discussion Paper
Caring for the Very Old: Public and Private Solutions

Howard Glennerster

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October 1996

WSP Discussion Paper
A Place for Fathers: Fathers and social policy in the post-war period

Sophie Sarre

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October 1996

WSP Discussion Paper
What do we expect Lone Mothers to do? Competing agendas for welfare reform in the United States

Jane Waldfogel

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October 1996

WSP Discussion Paper
Alternatives to Fundholding. Now published in International Journal of Health Services, 28(1),(1988),pp.47-66

Virginia Bovell, Anna Cohen and Howard Glennerster

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July 1996

WSP Discussion Paper
The Wages of Motherhood: Better or Worse? Now published in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol.23, No.5 (September 1999) pp.543-564

Heather Joshi, Pierella Paci and Jane Waldfogel

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July 1996

WSP Discussion Paper
Giving Credit Where it's Due? The Success of Family Credit Reassessed

Martin Evans

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WSP Discussion Paper
Price and Competition in the NHS Internal Market in GP Fundholer Procedures

Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson

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May 1996

WSP Discussion Paper
Housing Benefit Problems and Dilemmas: What can we learn from France and Germany?

Martin Evans

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April 1996

WSP Discussion Paper
Families on the Dole in Britain, France and Germany

Martin Evans

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April 1996

WSP Discussion Paper
Means-testing the Unemployed in Britain, France and Germany

Martin Evans

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April 1996

WSP Discussion Paper
Becoming a Parent in Europe

John Hobcraft and Kathleen E Kiernan

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October 1995

WSP Discussion Paper
Chunnel Vision: Poverty, Social Exclusion and The Debate on Social Welfare in France and Britain

Martin Evans, Serge Paugam and Joseph Prélis

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
The Problem of Lone Mother Families in Twentieth Century Britain

Jane Lewis

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Transition to Parenthood: Young Mothers, Young Fathers - Associated factors and later life experiences. (Version published as Becoming a Parent: A Longitudinal Study of Associated Factors, in British Journal of Sociology, 48(3), 1997)

Kathleen E Kiernan

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Japanese, South Korean and Taiwanese Social Welfare in Comparative Perspective

Roger Goodman and Ito Peng

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
The incomes of the non-household population and the effect of their exclusion from national income profiles

Martin Evans

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WSP Discussion Paper
The Effects of Differences in Housing and Health Care Systems on International Comparions of Income Distribution

Jane Falkingham, Karen Gardiner, John Hills, Valérie Lechêne and Holly Sutherland

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WSP Discussion Paper
The Welfare State and Economic Performance. Now published in National Tax Journal 48(2), (1995), pp.171-198

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Evaluating the Pin Money Hypothesis: The relationship between women's labour market activity, family income and poverty in Britain

Susan Harkness, Stephen Machin and Jane Waldfogel

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Area-based Poverty, Social Problems and Resident Empowerment

Anne Power

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December 1994

WSP Discussion Paper
Seeking to Explain the Distribution of Income. Now published in New Inequalities: The changing distribution of income and wealth in the UK, J Hills (ed.) (1996), Cambridge University Press

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Designed for the Poor - Poorer by Design? The Effects of the 1986 Social Security Acton Family Incomes

Martin Evans, David Piachaud and Holly Sutherland

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
State Pensions for Today and Tomorrow. (Published by the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, 1994; also chapter 16 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
The Decline of the Male Breadwinner: Changing Shares of Husbands' and Wives' Earnings in Family Income

Stephen Machin and Jane Waldfogel

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WSP Discussion Paper
The Development of Quasi-markets in Welfare Provision. Now published in International Journal of Health Services 25 (2), 1995

Howard Glennerster and Julian Le Grand

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Not Granted? An Assessment of the Change from Single Payments to the Social Fund

Martin Evans

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WSP Discussion Paper
A Survey of Income Inequality Over the Last Twenty Years: How Does the UK Compare?

Karen Gardiner

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
On Targeting Social Security: Theory and Western Experience with Family Benefits (in Public Spending and the Poor, D van de Walle and K Nead (eds.) (1996), Johns Hopkins University Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
The Institution of an Official Poverty Line and Economic Policy

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Capabilities, Exclusion, and the Supply of Goods (in Choice, Welfare and Development, K Basu, P Pattanaik and K Suzumura (eds.) (1995), Clarendon Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper
Investing in Skills: Responses to Learning should Pay and Paying for Learning

Robert J Bennett

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
The Low Income Population in Spain and a Comparison with France and the UK: Evidence from the Household Expenditure Surveys

Magda Mercader-Prats

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WSP Discussion Paper
Paying for Learning

Nicholas Barr and Jane Falkingham

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Women Working for Less: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Family Gap. (Version to be published in Oxford Economic Papers, vol.47 (October 1995).

Jane Waldfogel

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WSP Discussion Paper
Investigating Welfare: Final Report of the ESRC Welfare Research Programme

Howard Glennerster, John Hills and Julian Le Grand

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WSP Discussion Paper
Who Benefits from Local Services? Comparative Evidence from Different Local Authorities

Glen Bramley and Gavin Smart

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WSP Discussion Paper
A Unified Funded Pension Scheme (UFPS) for Britain. (Revised version in The Dynamic of Welfare: the welfare state and the life cycle, J Falkingham and J Hills (eds.) (1995) Harvester-Wheatsheaf).

Jane Falkingham and Paul Johnson

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Informal Carers and the Labour Market inBritain

Maria Evandrou and David Winter

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
William Beveridge versus Robin Hood: Social Security and Redistribution over the Lifecycle. (Revised version in The Dynamic of Welfare; The welfare state and the life cycle, J Falkingham and J Hills (eds.) (1995) Harvester-Wheatsheaf).

Jane Falkingham, John Hills and Carli Lessof

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January 1995

WSP Discussion Paper
What is Happening to the Distribution of Income in the UK? Now published in Proceedings of the British Academy, vol.82 (1993), pp.317-351; also chapter 1 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson (Cambridge University Press).

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January 1993

WSP Discussion Paper
Squaring the Circle: The Inconsistencies and Constraints of Beveridge's Plan. (Revised version published in Beveridge and Social Secutiry: An international retrospective, J Hills, J Ditch and H Glennerster (eds.) , 1994. Clarendon Press).

Martin Evans and Howard Glennerster

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January 1994

WSP Discussion Paper
Beveridge, the National Minimum, and its Future in a European Context (Chapter 15 in Incomes and the Welfare State, A B Atkinson (1995). Cambridge University Press); also cchapter 15 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Comparing Poverty in France and theUnited Kingdom (in The Distribution of Welfare and Household Production, S Jenkins, A Kapteyn and B van Praag (eds.) (1996), Cambridge University Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson, Karen Gardiner, Valérie Lechêne and Holly Sutherland

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January 1996

WSP Discussion Paper
Investing in Skill: Expected Returns to Vocational Studies (Revised version published in Education Economics, vol.3, 1995)

Robert J Bennett, Howard Glennerster and Douglas Nevison

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January 1995

WSP Discussion Paper
Paying for Welfare: Issues for the Nineties (Ch.1 in The Costs of Welfare, R Page and N Deakin (eds) 1993, Avebury)

Howard Glennerster

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January 1993

WSP Discussion Paper
The Targetting of Family Allowance in Hungary

Sarah J Jarvis and John Micklewright

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WSP Discussion Paper
The Western Experience with Social Safety Nets (in Economics in a Changing World, Vol.3, D Bös (ed.), (1993), Macmallian); also chapter 13 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson (Cambridge University Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January 1993

WSP Discussion Paper
The English and Swedish Health Care ReformsManos Matsaganis (International Journal of Health Services, 24(2), 1994)

Howard Glennerster

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January 1994

WSP Discussion Paper
Towards a European Social Safety Net? (Fiscal Studies, 13(3), 1992); also chapter 14 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January 1995

WSP Discussion Paper
European Social Policy: Models and Rationales (Journal of European Social Policy, 3(1), 1993)

Mark Kleinman and David Piachaud

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January 1993

WSP Discussion Paper
Does Britain Have a 'Welfare Generation'? An Empirical Analysis of Intergenerational Equity (Revised versions in The Dynamic of Welfare: the welfare state and the life cycle, J Falkingham and J Hills (eds.) (1995) Harvester-Wheatsheaf).

Helen Bowman and John Hills

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January 1995

WSP Discussion Paper
Income Support, Contracting Costs and Social Welfare in Britain

Jean-Yves Duclos

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WSP Discussion Paper
Investing in Skill: To stay on or not to stay on? (Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 8(2), 1992)

Robert J Bennett, Howard Glennerster and Douglas Nevison

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1992

WSP Discussion Paper
Policy Responses to Changing Housing Markets: Towards a European Housing Policy?

Mark Kleinman

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WSP Discussion Paper
The Distribution of Income in Eastern Europe

Anthony B. Atkinson and John Micklewright

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WSP Discussion Paper
The Take-up of State Benefits: An Application to Supplementary Benefits in Britain Using the FES

Jean-Yves Duclos

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Income Distribution and Redistribution across the Lifecycle: Evidence from Australia

Ann Harding

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WSP Discussion Paper
Progressivity, Redistribution and Equity, with Application to 1985 Britain

Jean-Yves Duclos

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WSP Discussion Paper
The Distribution of Welfare Benefits In Kind

Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham, John Hills and Julian Le Grand

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WSP Discussion Paper
Income Support for the Unemployed in Hungary

John Micklewright

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WSP Discussion Paper
The Social Safety Net

Anthony B. Atkinson

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WSP Discussion Paper
Social Insurance (Geneva Papers on Risk and Social Insurance Theory, 16(2), 113-131, 1991); also chapter 11 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January 1991

WSP Discussion Paper
The Distribution of Public Expenditure on Health Care Revisited (Journal of Health Economics, 10, 239-245, 1991)

Julian Le Grand

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January 1991

WSP Discussion Paper
Banding, Tilting, Gearing, Gaining and Losing: An Anatomy of the Proposed Council Tax (edited version in Fiscal Studies, 12(4), 1991)

John Hills and Holly Sutherland

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1991

WSP Discussion Paper
Putting a Price on Council Housing: ValuingVoluntary Transfers (edited version in Fiscal Studies, 13(1), 1992)

Karen Gardiner, John Hills, Mark Kleinman and Sandra McNally

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January 1992

WSP Discussion Paper
From Right-to-Buy to Rent-to-Mortgage: Privatisation of Council Housing Since 1979

John Hills

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Poverty, Statistics, and Progress in Europe (in Analysing Poverty in the European Community, Eurostat News Special Edition 1-1990, Eurostat, Luxembourg); also chapter 3 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson

Anthony B. Atkinson

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1990

WSP Discussion Paper
A Cohort Analysis of Chronic Morbidity and Unemployment in the General Household Survey

David Winter

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WSP Discussion Paper
The Development of State Pensions in the United Kingdom (in: The Future of Basic and Supplementary Pension Schemes in the European Community-1992 and Beyond, W Schmähl (ed)(1991) Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January 1991

WSP Discussion Paper
Regional Inequalities in Mortality

Raymond Illsley, Julian Le Grand and Christine Mullings

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Two Nations in Early Retirement?: The Case of Britain (Ch.6 in: Age, Work and Social Security, A B Atkinson and M Rein (eds) (1992), Macmillan)

Anthony B. Atkinson and Holly Sutherland

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January 1992

WSP Discussion Paper
The Myth of the Woopie?: Incomes, the Elderly, and Targeting Welfare (Ageing and Society, 11:4, Dec 1991)

Jane Falkingham and Christina Victor

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December 1991

WSP Discussion Paper
Economic Theory and the Welfare State: A Survey and Reinterpretation (Journal of Economic Literature, 30, 741-803, June 1992)

Nicholas Barr

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June 1992

WSP Discussion Paper
Comparing Poverty Rates Internationally: Lessons from Recent Studies in OECD Countries (The World Bank Economic Review, 5:1, 3-21, 1991); also in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe,(Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January 1991

WSP Discussion Paper
Equity in Health and Social Care (Journal of Social Policy, 21:4, 1992)

Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham, Julian Le Grand and David Winter

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1992

WSP Discussion Paper
The Distribution of the Tax Burden: 30 Years After The Theory of Public Finance (published in Modern Public Finance, J Quigley and E Smolensky (eds) (Harvard Unversity Press, 1993)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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1993

WSP Discussion Paper
Institutional Features of Unemployment Insurance and the Working of the Labour Market (Economic Analysis of Markets and Games, Dasgupta et al (eds) (MIT Press, 1992)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January 1992

WSP Discussion Paper
Challenging the Invisibility of Carers: Mapping Informal Care Nationally (published in Social Policy and Older People, C Victor and F Lascko (eds) (Gower, 1992)

Maria Evandrou

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January 1992

WSP Discussion Paper
Dynamic Microsimulation Models: Problems andProspects

Ann Harding

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WSP Discussion Paper
A National Minimum? A History of Ambiguity in the Determination of Benefit Scales in Britain (published in The State and Social Welfare, T and D Wilson (eds) (1991, Longman)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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1991

WSP Discussion Paper
How Much Do We Care? A Comment on the Government's Community Care Proposals (Social Policy and Administration, 24:2, 93-103, Aug 1990)

Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham and Howard Glennerster

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WSP Discussion Paper
Equity and the Distribution of National HealthService Resources (Journal of Health Economics, 10, 1-19, June 1991)

Owen O'Donnell and Carol Propper

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Distributional Effects of Housing Subsidies in the United Kingdom. (Revised version in Journal of Public Economics, 44:3, 1991)

John Hills

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Administration, Compliance and Governability

Patrick Troy

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
How Far is the Poll Tax a 'Community Charge'? The Implications of Service Usage Evidence (Policy and Politics, 17:3, 187-205, 1989)

Glen Bramley, Julian Le Grand and William Low

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Shifting Subsidy from Bricks and Mortar to People: Experiences in Britain and West Germany (Housing Studies, 5:3, 1990, pp.147-167)

John Hills, Franz Hubert, Horst Tomann and Christine Whitehead

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Working for Patients? The Right Approach? (Social Policy and Administration, 23:2, Aug 1989)

Nicholas Barr, Howard Glennerster and Julian Le Grand

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
A New Era for Social Policy: A New Enlightenment or a New Leviathan? (Journal of Social Policy, 20:3, 389-414, July 1991)

Howard Glennerster, Anne Power and Tony Travers

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Social Security in Developed Countries: Are There Lessons for Developing Countries? (Ch3 in Social Security in Developing Countries, E Ahmad, J Drèze, J Hills, A Sen (eds) (1991), Oxford University Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson and John Hills

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Income Maintenance for the Unemployed in Britain and the Response to High Unemployment (Ethics, 100, 569-585, 1990; also chapter 9 in Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe, by A.B. Atkinson, (Cambridge Univ. Press,1995)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Equity versus Efficiency: The Elusive Trade-off (Ethics, 100, 554-568, 1990)

Julian Le Grand

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WSP Discussion Paper
Fifty Years On: The Income and Household Composition of the Elderly in Britain (Ch.12 in Welfare and the Ageing Experience, B Bytheway and J Johnson (eds.) (1990), Avebury)

Jane Falkingham and Chris Gordon

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WSP Discussion Paper
The Mirage of Private Unemployment Insurance

Nicholas Barr

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Twenty-First Century Housing Subsidies:Durable Rent-Fixing and Subsidy Arrangementsfor Social Housing. (Revised and expanded versions of much of this paper are to be found in Unravelling Housing Finance (see above)

John Hills

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Reform and the National Health Service (publd.:'Improving the National Health Service', in Resourcing the National Health ServiceEvidence to the Social Services Committee, House of Commons, Session 1987-88, HMSO, HC264-IV)

Nicholas Barr, Howard Glennerster and Julian Le Grand

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1988

WSP Discussion Paper
Enterprise Welfare in Japan

Rachel Hall

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Differentiation in Later Life: Social Class and Housing Tenure Cleavages. (Becoming and Being Old, B Bytheway (ed) (1989), Sage)

Maria Evandrou and Christina Victor

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January 1989

WSP Discussion Paper
The Myth of Family Care? The Elderlyin the early 1930s (Ageing and Society, 8:2/3, June/Sept 1988)

Chris Gordon

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1988

WSP Discussion Paper
Student Grants and Student Poverty

Nicholas Barr and William Low

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Council Housing: Conflict, Change and Decision-Making

Anne Power

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
The Distribution of Domiciliary and Primary Health Care in Britain. (Chapter 8 in Social Welfare in Britain and Poland, J Le Grand and W Okrasa (eds)(1988), STICERD Occasional Paper 12)

Maria Evandrou and David Winter

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1988

WSP Discussion Paper
In Search of Postwar Consensus. (The LSE Quarterly, 3:1, Spring 1989)

Nicholas Deakin

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1989

WSP Discussion Paper
Subsidies to Social Housing in England: Their Behavioural Implications. (Revised version, Ch15 in Unravelling Housing Finance: Subsidies, Benefits and Taxation, J Hills (1991), Oxford University Press)

John Hills

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January 1991

WSP Discussion Paper
Three Essays on Equity. (Revised and expanded version of these papers in Equity and Choice, J Le Grand (1991), Routledge)

Julian Le Grand

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1991

WSP Discussion Paper
The Welfare State as an Efficiency Device ('Social Insurance as an Efficiency Device' in Journal of Public Policy, 9:1, 59-82, July 1989)

Nicholas Barr

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1989

WSP Discussion Paper
The Crisis in Council Housing: Is Public Housing Manageable? (The Political Quarterly, 58:3, July-Sept 1987)

Anne Power

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January 1987

WSP Discussion Paper
The Voluntary Sector in Housing: The Role of British Housing Associations (in The Nonprofit Sector in International Perspective: Studies in Comparative Culture and Policy, E James (ed) (1989), Oxford University Press)

John Hills

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January 1989

WSP Discussion Paper
Non-Wage Labour Costs: Their Rationales and the Economic Effects

Toshiaki Tachibanaki

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Social Justice and the Redistributive Effect ofSocial Expenditure in Poland

Wlodek Okrasa

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Britain's Ageing Population: The Engine BehindIncreased Dependency Ratios (version in Journal of Social Policy, 18:2, April 1989)

Jane Falkingham

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April 1989

WSP Discussion Paper
An International Comparison of Health Inequalities (versions in European Economic Review, 31, 182-191, 1987, and in Health Inequalities in European Countries, J Fox (ed) (1989), Gower)

Julian Le Grand

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1987

WSP Discussion Paper
The Use of Domiciliary Services by the Elderly: A Survey

Maria Evandrou

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
The Middle Classes and the Welfare State (Journal of Public Policy, 6:4, 399-430, 1987. Also version in Chapter 8 in Not Only the Poor (see above))

Julian Le Grand and David Winter

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January 1987

WSP Discussion Paper
When is a Grant not a Grant? The Current System of Housing Association Finance (Summarised in 'How to Get Better Value from Subsidy to Housing Associations', Public Money, 7:1, June 1987; see also Unravelling Housing Finance, below)

John Hills

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June 1987

WSP Discussion Paper
Measurement of Inequality in Health (Economics and Health, A Williams (ed) (1987), Macmillan)

Raymond Illsley and Julian Le Grand

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
Social Insurance and Income Maintenance (Atkinson: Poverty and Social Security (1989), Harvester Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January 1989

WSP Discussion Paper
The Middle Class Infiltration of the Welfare State: Some Evidence from Australia (Journal of Public Policy, 6, 255-274, 1987. Also Chapter 6 in Not Only the Poor (see above))

Robert E Goodin and Julian Le Grand

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1987

WSP Discussion Paper
The Welfare State in Britain 1970-1985: Extent and Effectiveness (Ch.7 in The Performance of the British Economy, R Dornbusch and R Layard (eds) (1987), Oxford University Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson, John Hills and Julian Le Grand

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January 1987

WSP Discussion Paper
Service Credits: A New Currency for the Welfare State

Edgar Cahn

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WSP Discussion Paper
The Scandinavian Welfare State: Anatomy, Logic and Some Problems (in The Economic Development of Denmark and Norway since 1870, K G Persson (ed) (1993), Edward Elgar)

Gunnar Persson

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January

WSP Discussion Paper
On Researching the Distributional Consequences of Public Policies (Ch. 2 in Not Only the Poor: the Middle Classes and the Welfare State, R Goodin and J Le Grand (eds) (1987), Unwin Hyman)

Julian Le Grand

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WSP Discussion Paper
Income Maintenance and Social Insurance: A Survey. (Chapter 13 in Handbook of Public Economics, Vol.II, A Auerbach and M Feldstein (eds) (1987), Elsevier Science Publishers)

Anthony B. Atkinson

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January 1987

WSP Discussion Paper
Research Directions on the Future of the Welfare State: a View from Social Administration

Howard Glennerster

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WSP Discussion Paper
The Historical Dimensions of the Welfare State 'Crisis'. (Journal of Social Policy, 15:4, 443-465, Oct 1986)

Paul Johnson

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October 1986

WSP Discussion Paper
An Econometric Approach to the Measurement of Poverty. (Oxford Economic Papers, 40:3, 505-522, Sept 1988)

Meghnad Desai and Anup Shah

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September 1988

WSP Discussion Paper
Inequalities in Health: the Human Capital Approach. (Version with M Rabin in Public and Private Health Services, A Culyer and B Jonsson (eds) (1986), Basil Blackwell

Julian Le Grand

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1986