This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and … the announcement of a reform that increases in-work benefits, including sources of intertemporal substitution, human … announcement and implementation of a major UK in-work benefit reform, we estimate its effects on single mothers' behavior. We find …

existing empirical literature on the impacts of welfare reform, and discuss the implications of our results for policy and …

difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all …

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform …

, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees makes real reform much harder, and …

, especially in societies with highly skewed distribution of ownership. We however argue that the success of CG reform would, in …

main objective of the reform was to reduce the amount of benefits for individuals that do not have a long contributory … history as the reform introduced a disincentive to apply to the system if the individual does not have 35 years of effective …