Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98980 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8188
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the level of municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with relatively high benefits and low incentives for single mothers to leave welfare for work. In our analysis, we make a distinction between native and immigrant welfare recipients. For immigrant single mothers and some groups of native single mothers we find a positive employment effect of an earnings disregard. Job creation in addition to the earnings disregard increased working hours for some groups of single mothers. Although the outflow from welfare was not affected, welfare expenditures were reduced.
Subjects: 
welfare
single mothers
natural experiment
JEL: 
C41
C93
I38
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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