Working Together—with Families

Working with vulnerable families in deprived areas.

Evaluating the Working Families Tax Credit

We examine the labour market impact of the Working Families Tax Credit a financial incentive programme to enhance income and encourage work in low income families, recently introduced in the UK. Family labour supply behaviour is modelled as a discrete choice among a finite set of hours alternatives. We allow for fixed costs, program participation and childcare. The relaibility of this structura...

EVALUATION OF THE WORKING FAMILIES ’ & DISABLED PERSON ’ S TAX CREDIT Research Report No 1 Working Families ’ Tax Credit

ing from childcare considerations, the largest gains from WFTC go to those people who were just at the end of the FC taper. It follows that WFTC will have less impact on income at low hours, and so we should expect only modest effects on participation rates for those for whom part-time work is most attractive. The lower WFTC taper implies that the incentive to work full-time as opposed to part-...

Health coverage instability for mothers in working families.

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the authors examined the health insurance coverage stability of 1,667 women in working families over a three-year period (1995-1997). Findings revealed that coverage instability is common. Nearly one-half of low-income women experienced health coverage instability over the three-year study period, and low-income women with poor educatio...

MEDICAL MANAGEMENT Working With Families in Long-Term Care

Effective communication with families can improve clinical process and outcomes in long-term care. Such communication may be challenging to long-term care clinicians, who may feel they lack requisite skills or are uncomfortable with potentially charged and negative emotions that may result. These barriers can be overcome by using models of family behavior and of physician involvement in family ...