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The Consequences of 'In-Work' Benefit Reform in Britain : New Evidence from Panel Data
Francesconi, Marco; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2021
evaluate the effect of this reform on single mothers. We identify this impact by comparing changes in behavior of lone mothers … to changes for single women without children. Our results show that the financial incentives of the reform had powerful … effects on a wide range of lone mothers' decisions. The reform led to a substantial increase in employment rates of about 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319113
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Children's Social Care and Early Intervention Policy in England
Anderberg, Dan - 2020
We study the relationship between a key early intervention policy designed to support families with children up to the age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care. The gradual build-up of over 3,600 Sure Start Children's Centres (SSCC), operated by Local Authorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837451
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Children's social care and early intervention policy in England
Anderberg, Dan; Olympiou, Christina - 2020
We study the relationship between a key early intervention policy designed to support families with children up to the age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care. The gradual build-up of over 3,600 Sure Start Children's Centres (SSCC), operated by Local Authorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197643
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Channels of labour supply responses of lone parents to changed work incentives
Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the response of female lone parents to two reforms to the welfare system in Australia. We look at changes to both hours and participation and focus on the channels of adjustment, in particular the role of job changes for adjustment in hours. We highlight the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793035
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The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples : Theory and Evidence
Francesconi, Marco - 2008
financial incentives of the reform had negligible effects on a wide range of married mothers' decisions, such as eligible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773413
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Job Changes and Hours Changes : Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment
Blundell, Richard W. - 2007
identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of small hours of work effects for two of such reforms. A third reform in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775845
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Job changes, hours changes and labour market flexibility: Panel data evidence for Britain
Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - 2005
This study uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate the extent of constraints on desired hours of work within jobs and the degree of flexibility of the labour market for a sample of women. Our main findings are as follows....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292936
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Job changes, hours changes and the path of labour supply adjustment
Blundell, Richard; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - 2005
. We find evidence of small labour supply effects for two of such reforms. A third reform in 1999 instead led to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293093
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Das "adult worker model" in den USA und Großbritannien
Woods, Dorian - In: Wohlfahrtsstaat und Geschlechterverhältnis im Umbruch …, (pp. 208-233). 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003753837
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Income support to families with children in Spain
Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel - 2021
Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in providing income support to families with children. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593863