From Welfare to Work: Evaluating a Proposed Tax and Benefit Reform Targeted at Single Mothers in Sweden
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- Flood, Lennart & Pylkkänen, Elina & Wahlberg, Roger, 2003. "From Welfare to Work: Evaluating a Proposed Tax and Benefit Reform Targeted at Single Mothers in Sweden," Working Papers in Economics 107, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
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Keywords
tax and benefit reform; single mothers; labor supply; welfare participation;JEL classification:
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2003-10-20 (All new papers)
- NEP-EDU-2003-10-20 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2003-10-20 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2003-10-20 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
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