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From Welfare to Work: Evaluating a Proposed Tax and Benefit Reform Targeted at Single Mothers in Sweden

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dc.creator Flood, Lennart
dc.creator Pylkkänen, Elina
dc.creator Wahlberg, Roger
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:08:52Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:08:52Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20130
dc.identifier ppn:371986524
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20130
dc.description 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.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 891
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject I38
dc.subject J22
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject single mothers
dc.subject labor supply
dc.subject welfare participation
dc.subject tax and benefit reform
dc.subject Alleinerziehende
dc.subject Arbeitsangebot
dc.subject Sozialhilfe
dc.subject Steuerreform
dc.subject Sozialreform
dc.subject Schweden
dc.title From Welfare to Work: Evaluating a Proposed Tax and Benefit Reform Targeted at Single Mothers in Sweden
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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