Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20130 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 891
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper we propose a tax and benefit reform to increase the working hours and to decrease the welfare participation of single mothers in Sweden. We have access to highquality tax and income data, and use a detailed tax-benefit program to generate precise budget-sets. We formulate and estimate a structural, static model of labor supply and welfare participation. The results suggest that labor supply among single mother households in Sweden is quite elastic, and that there is self-selection into welfare. The proposed reform would generate welfare-gains for virtually everyone in the sample, yet would be revenue neutral.
Subjects: 
single mothers
labor supply
welfare participation
tax and benefit reform
JEL: 
I38
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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