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- Title
Female Labor Supply, Human Capital, and Welfare Reform.
- Authors
Blundell, Richard; Costa Dias, Monica; Meghir, Costas; Shaw, Jonathan
- Abstract
We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation-including education, and savings for women in the United Kingdom, exploiting tax and benefit reforms, and use it to analyze the effects of welfare policy. We find substantial elasticities for labor supply and particularly for lone mothers. Returns to experience, which are important in determining the longer-term effects of policy, increase with education, but experience mainly accumulates when in full-time employment. Tax credits are welfare improving in the U.K., increase lone-mother labor supply and marginally reduce educational attainment, but the employment effects do not extend beyond the period of eligibility. Marginal increases in tax credits improve welfare more than equally costly increases in income support or tax cuts.
- Subjects
LABOR supply; HUMAN capital; PUBLIC welfare; BUSINESSWOMEN; FULL-time employment
- Publication
Econometrica, 2016, Vol 84, Issue 5, p1705
- ISSN
0012-9682
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3982/ECTA11576