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Contribution of child maintenance on lone mothers' income in five welfare states

Hakovirta, Mia; Jokela, Merita - 2018

This study uses the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS data) from 2013 to study 1) the contribution of child maintenance to the income packages of lone mothers, 2) the proportion of lone mothers receiving child maintenance and the level of child maintenance for those receiving it, and 3) the extent to...

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Making work pay : increasing labour supply of secondary earners in low income families with children

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: Contemporary economics 11 (2017) 2, pp. 161-170

In-work support through the tax-benefit system has proved to be an effective way of increasing the labor supply of lone mothers and first earners in couples in a number of OECD countries. At the same time, these instruments usually create negative employment incentives for secondary earners....

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Do Husbands and Wives Pool Their Resources? : Evidence from the United Kingdom Child Benefit

Lundberg, Shelly J.; Pollak, Robert A.; Wales, Terence J. - 1997

Common preference models of family behavior imply income pooling, a restriction on family demand functions such that … is difficult because most family income sources are not exogenous to the allocations being analyzed. In this paper, we … substantial child allowance to wives in the late 1970s. Using Family Expenditure Survey data, we find strong evidence that a shift …

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What is the economically and socially optimised child support?

Varga, Erzsébet Teréz - In: Central European journal of operations research 32 (2024) 1, pp. 131-154

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Family, dependence, and the origins of the welfare state : Britain and France, 1914 - 1945

Pedersen, Susan - 1993 - 1. publ.

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Motherless families

George, Victor; Wilding, Paul - 1972

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Child support and educational outcomes : evidence from the British household panel survey

Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008

There is some evidence to support the view that Child Support (CS), despite low compliance rates and a strong interaction with the welfare system, has played a positive role in reducing child poverty among non-intact families. However, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on...

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Dual-career families re-examined : new integrations of work & family

Rapoport, Rhona; Rapoport, Robert N. - 1976 - 2. ed

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Financial support for families with children and its trade-offs : balancing redistribution and parental work incentives

Myck, Michał; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michał - 2013

consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform. …

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Financial support for families with children and its trade-offs ; balancing redistribution and parental work incentives

Myck, Michał; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michał - In: Baltic journal of economics 13 (2013) 2, pp. 59-83

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