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Child Care Subsidies, Welfare Reforms, and Lone Mothers
Author(s) -
Cleveland Gordon,
Hyatt Douglas
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/1468-232x.00289
Subject(s) - subsidy , punitive damages , welfare , welfare reform , social welfare , labour economics , economics , demographic economics , child care , public economics , political science , market economy , medicine , nursing , law
Recent social assistance reforms appear to have reduced welfare rolls, but the effects on the well‐being of those families and their children are less clear. Using simulations based on Canadian data, we find that some currently favored alternatives turn out to be effective in encouraging employment but punitive to families. Increased subsidization of market child care combined with income support for families appears to deliver a number of family‐supportive outcomes.