Labour supply and income distribution effects of the working income tax benefit: a general equilibrium microsimulation analysis

Table 5 Labour supply and distributional impacts of Scenario 1, % change from the base run

		One person	Couples	Couples with children	Lone parents	Other families	All
Labour supply		0.19	0.12	0.14	0.67	0.08	0.15
	High-skill	0.08	0.06	0.07	0.38	0.04	0.07
	Medium-skill	0.22	0.14	0.15	0.71	0.08	0.17
	Low-skill	0.32	0.20	0.24	0.85	0.11	0.24
Labour income		0.11	0.04	0.06	0.57	−0.01	0.07
	High-skill	0.05	0.03	0.04	0.35	0.01	0.04
	Medium-skill	0.13	0.04	0.06	0.61	−0.01	0.07
	Low-skill	0.17	0.06	0.10	0.70	−0.04	0.10
Real after-tax income		0.08	0.05	0.07	0.31	0.02	0.07
Low-income rate		−0.23	−0.42	−3.80	−0.24	0.00	−0.86
Low-income gap		−0.15	−0.38	−1.44	−0.55	−0.31	−0.45
Gini index		−0.06	−0.12	−0.24	−0.32	−0.07	−0.17

Note: Income distribution indices in the base run are presented in Table 8 in the Appendix.