Implicit tax on a lone parent returning to a low-paid job in the USA, UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
28 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, fiscal policy, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, public economics, welfare reform Tags: poverty traps, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, taxation and labour supply, welfare state
Ratio of unemployment and single parents benefit to the New Zealand net average wage since 1970
27 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, welfare reform Tags: domestic purposes benefit, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, unemployment benefit, welfare state
Source: OECD Economic Survey New Zealand 2015.
Ethnicity of people receiving Sole Parent Support in NZ
01 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: Maori economic development, single mothers, single parents, welfare state
All-in average personal income tax rate less cash transfers at average wage for single person with 2 children across OECD
30 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in public economics Tags: family tax credit, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, taxation and labour supply, welfare state
What percentage of mothers with a child aged 0-2 yrs have a paid job
20 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in gender, labour economics, labour supply Tags: economics of fertility, female labour force dissipation, maternal labour force participation, single mothers
More evidence from the @economicpolicy institute of the great success of the 1996 US federal welfare reforms
17 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, single mothers, single parents, US welfare reforms
1996 US welfare reforms & single mother employment rates @garethmorgannz @geoffsimmonz
13 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: 1996 US welfare reforms, female labour force participation, maternal labour force participation, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, welfare state
Source: Ron Haskins (2015).
Poverty Rates by Mothers’ Marital Status, 1987 to 2013
13 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, welfare state
Source: Congressional Research Service.https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41917.pdf
US pregnancy rates by age, 1990-2010
09 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of fertility, single mothers, teen pregnancies
Teen smoking rates in one and two parent households in USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy and Scandinavia
23 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of smoking, single mothers, single parents
Not only do smoking rates differ greatly across the Atlantic and the English Channel, the influence of a single parent household seems to be large in the Anglo-Saxon countries but much less important elsewhere.
Source: OECD Family Database.
US maternal employment rates by number and age of children
18 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: economics of fertility, female labour force participation, maternal labour force participation, single mothers
@Greencatherine 1996 US welfare reforms and the employment of single mums who were high school dropouts
31 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: 1996 US welfare reforms, paternal labour supply, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, welfare state
https://twitter.com/hamiltonproj/status/659776768094547968
There was a step increase in the employment rate of single parents and in particular high school dropouts straight after the implementation of the 1996 US federal welfare reforms.
These single mothers who dropped out of high school were thought to be least employable and most at risk to the 1996 US welfare reform. There was a large increase in their employment and this massive improvement in their rates of employment is enduring to this day.
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