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Single Mothers, Welfare, and Incentives to Work
Author(s) -
González Libertad
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2008.00417.x
Subject(s) - welfare reform , single mothers , allowance (engineering) , earnings , incentive , welfare , work (physics) , economics , demographic economics , labour economics , psychology , developmental psychology , operations management , market economy , microeconomics , mechanical engineering , accounting , engineering
. This paper analyses the effect of a reform in the French single parents allowance on the labor supply of single mothers with very young children. The reform aimed at encouraging participation by allowing eligible single parents to accumulate welfare benefits and labor earnings for a limited period of time. The analysis shows that eligible single mothers were significantly more likely to work after the reform. During the same period, the employment rate of married mothers with young children did not experience a significant change, suggesting that at least part of the increase among single mothers was a consequence of the reform.