Regan, Mark; Keane, Claire; Walsh, John - 2018
This paper examines how changes to the social welfare system for lone parents, such as the tightening of eligibility … income of lone parents, and how changes to lone-parent-specific schemes affected income and work incentives, and quantify the … extent to which childcare costs act as a labour market barrier for lone parents. Firstly, policy changes do not occur in a …