Female labour supply, human capital and welfare reform.

Autor/inn/en	Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Monica Costa; Meghir, Costas; Shaw, Jonathan
Titel	Female labour supply, human capital and welfare reform.
Quelle	London: Inst. for Fiscal Studies (2013), 57 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IFS working papers. W13/10
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen; Anhang 1
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsverhalten; Schätzung; Frau; Sozialleistung; Sozialreform; Öffentliche Ausgaben; Arbeitskraft; Arbeitsplatzangebot; Erwerbsverlauf; Frauenbildung; Arbeitspapier; Wirkungsanalyse; Großbritannien
Abstract	We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyse both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and savings, we quantify the insurance value of alternative programs. We find important incentive effects on education choice and labour supply, with single mothers having the most elastic labour supply. Returns to labour market experience are found to be substantial but only for full-time employment, and especially for women with more than basic formal education. For those with lower education the welfare programs are shown to have substantial insurance value. Based on the model, marginal increases to tax credits are preferred to equally costly increases in income support and to tax cuts, except by those in the highest education group.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2013/4