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| Title: | | Labour supply disincentives of income support: An analysis of single mothers with no qualifications in the UK  |
| Authors: | | Soobedar, Zeenat |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working Paper // School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary, University of London 656 |
| Abstract: | | This paper examines the labour supply disincentives of the Income Support system among single mothers with no qualifications in the UK. It uses a regression discontinuity approach that exploits the age-eligibility rule establishing automatic withdrawal of Income Support for single mothers whose youngest child turns 16. At this cut-off age, barely ineligible mothers experience an 8.5% increase in their probability of working and an increase in hours of work of about 3. This is consistent with pronounced labour supply disincentives of the income support policy. |
| Subjects: | | single mothers Income Support labour supply regression discontinuity |
| JEL: | | C21 I38 J12 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Paper Series, School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary, University of London
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