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-educated single women with children do change their residential locations in response to changes in welfare policies and labor market …
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We estimate a model of labour supply and participation in multiple cash and in-kind welfare programmes. The modeling exploits a reform that affected U.K. single mothers. In-work cash entitlements increased under this reform but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programmes was lost for some...
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This paper considers the effect of child care costs on two labor market outcomes for single mothers - whether to participate in the labor market and whether to receive welfare. Hourly child care expenditures are estimated for all women in the sample (using data drawn from the 1992 and 1993...
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Changes in social policies in the mid-1990s increased the penalties for not working and raised the rewards for working. These policies played a major role in stimulating employment among single mothers and the gains were approximately as high in nonmetro areas as in metro areas
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covers data from five countries: Finland, Germany, Spain, UK and the USA. Our results show that in all countries except the … transfers. Child maintenance contributes significantly to the income of lone mothers, particularly in Spain, followed by the USA … reveals that in the USA the lone mothers in lowest income quintile do not seem to benefit as much from child maintenance …
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fewer children or those with more education at exit are more likely to consistently escape poverty. Median income increases …
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the family, more particularly children of the participating mothers. Using a randomized experiment that provided education … through which it might be operating. My estimates suggest that the program is negatively impacting the children both on …
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