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Unintended consequences of welfare reform: the case of divorced parents
Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2008
This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274406
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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: The Case of Divorced Parents
Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703539
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The Consequences of ?In-Work? Benefit Reform in Britain : New Evidence from Panel Data
Francesconi, Marco; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2004
effects on a wide range of lone mothers? decisions. The reform led to a substantial increase in employment rates of about 7 … tax credit component of the reform played a key role in explaining the estimated employment responses. Finally, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262000
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The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples: Theory and Evidence
Francesconi, Marco; van der Klaauw, Wilbert H; Rainer, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
(working at least 16 hours per week) and full-time employment (working at least 30 hours per week), employment transitions … supply and earnings. Mothers married to low-income men showed larger responses in employment, especially if they had younger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703435
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Job Changes and Hours Changes: Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment
Francesconi, Marco; Blundell, Richard; Brewer, Mike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women’s labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed individuals’ work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763898
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The Consequences of ‘In-Work’ Benefit Reform in Britain: New Evidence from Panel Data
Francesconi, Marco; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
effects on a wide range of lone mothers’ decisions. The reform led to a substantial increase in employment rates of about 7 … tax credit component of the reform played a key role in explaining the estimated employment responses. Finally, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761971
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The Effect of Parents' Employment on Children's Educational Attainment
Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2000
childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in … extent of mother?s full-time employment when the child was aged 0-5. The effects of mother?s part-time employment and father …?s employment are smaller and less well determined but again negative. In the context of our conditional demand function framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262421
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Anatomy of welfare reform evaluation: Announcement and implementation effects
Blundell, Richard; Francesconi, Marco; van der Klaauw, … - 2011
important announcement effects on employment decisions. We show that this finding is consistent with the presence of short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282467
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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey
Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - 2013
Previous reviews of static labor supply estimations concentrate mainly on the evidence from the 1980s and 1990s, Anglo-Saxon countries and early generations of labor supply modeling. This paper provides a fresh characterization of steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329211
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The Sensitivity of Structural Labor Supply Estimations to Modeling Assumptions
Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2018
There is still considerable dispute about the magnitude of labor supply elasticities. While differences in estimates especially between micro and macro models are recently attributed to frictions and adjustment costs, we show that the variation in elasticities derived from structural labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873429