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Managing time: the integration of caring and paid work by low-income families and the role of the UK's tax credit system

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Under the New Labour governments in the UK, successive reforms of the tax and benefit system sought to improve the financial benefits of paid work. Drawing on two waves of qualitative interviews with low-income working families this article examines the role of the UK tax credit system in shaping decisions about employment and unpaid care work. The article suggests that the financial support provided for lone-parent participants by the tax credit system enhanced their temporal autonomy, permitting participation in paid work to align more closely with temporally situated notions of parental responsibility for caring. For couple families however, parental perceptions of responsibility for pre-school children, along with childcare constraints and the structure of the tax credit system served to constrain the autonomy of the main carer and implicitly encourage a gendered specialisation in caring or employment.

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  • Jay Wiggan, 2010. "Managing time: the integration of caring and paid work by low-income families and the role of the UK's tax credit system," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(6), pages 631-645.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:31:y:2010:i:6:p:631-645
    DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2010.511527
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    1. Tadeusz Zienkiewicz & Aleksandra Zalewska & Ewa Zienkiewicz, 2023. "Spatial Diversity and Impact of Selected Factors on Women’s Labour Force Participation Rate in Poland during 2000–2020," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(17), pages 1-16, August.

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