Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
By Richard Blundell, C. Meghir, J. Shaw, Monica Costa Dias. Social Science Research Network, 2013
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We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in the UK, 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 UK and increase lone-mother labor supply, 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.
Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies
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- Knowledge of Future Job Loss and Implications for Unemployment Insurance (2017, background): “33 and 1, loosely consistent with the range of estimates found in Blundell et al. (2016). The first row of Table 7 reports the coefficients, β = dLFP ____ dZ , from equation (3)”
- The Career Costs of Children (2017, unknown): “There is a long tradition in economics - dating back to the seminal work of Heckman (1974) and including work by Blau and Kahn (1996), Blundell et al. (2007), Mulligan and Rubinstein (2008) and Olivetti and Petrongolo (2008) - of evaluating the selection of women into the labor market.”
- The Marriage Market, Labor Supply, and Education Choice (2015, unknown): “Ū ς i = exp { 1− δ 1− δT V ς i (Hi) } (6)”
- Marginal Tax Rates and Income: New Time Series Evidence (2013, background): “3Blundell et al. (1998), Slemrod (1998), Triest (1998), Goolsbee (1999) and Saez et al.”