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Welfare Benefits and Lone Parents' Employment in Great Britain

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  • John F. Ermisch
  • Robert E. Wright

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The analysis pools ten years of General Household Surveys to identify the effects of Britain's welfare benefit system on a lone mother's probability of employment. It confirms the prediction that, because of the implicit 100 percent tax rate in the system, higher nonlabor income (other than welfare benefits) increases the probability while a higher benefit guarantee reduces it. The analysis also confirms that among women who could never be eligible for benefits, higher nonlabor income reduces the probability of employment and the guarantee has no effect.

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  • John F. Ermisch & Robert E. Wright, 1991. "Welfare Benefits and Lone Parents' Employment in Great Britain," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 26(3), pages 424-456.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:26:y:1991:i:3:p:424-456
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    1. Magne Mogstad & Chiara Pronzato, 2008. "Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? The effects of a Norwegian workfare reform on earnings, education and poverty," Working Papers 008, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
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    15. William A. Darity & Samuel L. Myers & Chanjin Chung, 1998. "Racial Earnings Disparities and Family Structure," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 65(1), pages 20-41, July.

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