This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school …-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment – the main welfare payment for this group – for at least one year … large, statistically significant and positive impacts on the hazard rates for exiting the welfare payment. Two thirds of …

Welfare-to-work programs ... …

partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation …

The UK Universal Credit (UC) welfare reform simplified the benefits system whilst strongly incentivising a return to … requirements dominate any positive welfare effects of the reduced administrative burden of claiming benefits. …

Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform … earnings and welfare participation decisions, and use the behavioural estimates to derive the policy parameters which would …

The goals of income transfer systems in the US and the UK for low-income families are to reduce poverty and welfare … combination of in-work benefits and welfare benefits produces a theoretical budget constraint with good financial incentives for … work incentives difficult. First, little is known about take-up rates of in-work and other welfare benefit rates in the US …

This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using … recent policy reforms to identify the response rate I find that a GBP100/week welfare benefit "partnership penalty" reduces …