Dahl, Molly; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Schwabish, Jonathan A. - 2009
While many studies have found that the EITC increases the employment rates of single mothers, no study to date has … examined whether the jobs taken by single mothers as a result of the EITC incentives are "dead-end" jobs or jobs that have the … find no evidence that the EITC expansions between 1994 and 1996 induced single mothers to take "dead-end" jobs. If anything …