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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State
Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
to a substantial decrease in disposable income and a significant increase in poverty among persistent lone mothers …, because a sizeable group was unable to offset the loss of out-of-work welfare benefits with gains in earnings. This suggests … that the desired effects of the workfare reform were associated with the side-effects of income loss and increased poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578121
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Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? : evidence from a workfare reform in a generous welfare state
Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2009
. -- Lone mothers ; workfare reform ; difference-in-differences ; heterogeneity ; earnings ; labor force participation ; poverty … to a substantial decrease in disposable income and a significant increase in poverty among persistent lone mothers …, because a sizeable group was unable to offset the loss of out-of-work welfare benefits with gains in earnings. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904586
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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State
Mogstad, Magne - 2009
to a substantial decrease in disposable income and a significant increase in poverty among persistent lone mothers …, because a sizeable group was unable to offset the loss of out-of-work welfare benefits with gains in earnings. This suggests … that the desired effects of the workfare reform were associated with the side-effects of income loss and increased poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155319
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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education and Poverty.
Pronzato, Chiara; Mogstad, Magne - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2008
High welfare dependency and poverty rate among lone mothers prompted a workfare reform of the Norwegian welfare system … not only led to increased earnings and educational attainment – in the process lowering welfare caseloads and therefore … easing the government’s financial burden – but also reduced poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518871
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Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? : evidence from a workfare reform in a generous welfare state
Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 114 (2012) 4, pp. 1129-1159
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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education, and Poverty
Pronzato, Chiara; Mogstad, Magne - 2008
once. We find that the workfare reform did not only increase earnings and education as well as lower welfare caseloads and … by this route ease the financial burden of the government, but also reduced poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968303
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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education, and Poverty
Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2008
once. We find that the workfare reform did not only increase earnings and education as well as lower welfare caseloads and … by this route ease the financial burden of the government, but also reduced poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980681
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Do changes in employment and hours worked contribute to a decreasing in the mental health of single mothers during a period of welfare reform in the UK? : a longitudinal analysis (...
Simpson, Julija; Bambra, Clare; Brown, Heather W. - 2021
We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation framework to explore if reductions in benefit income led to a...
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The Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families 25 Years After Welfare Reform
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce; Sullivan, James X. - 2021
We investigate how material well-being has changed over time for single mother headed families—the primary group affected by welfare reform and other policy changes of the 1990s. We focus on consumption as well as other indicators including components of consumption, measures of housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213593
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Single mothers and their children : evaluating a work-encouraging welfare reform
Løken, Katrine V.; Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Reiso, … - 2016
Using rich administrative data from Norway, we evaluate a 1998 work-encouraging reform targeted at single parents. We especially focus on educational performance for children of the involved single mothers. For all children of single mothers, the effect on school grades at completion of junior...
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