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Welfare Reform and the Employment of Lone Parents

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References

  • Blank, R., Card, D. and Robins, P. (1999), ‘Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income among Low-Income Families’, NBER Working Paper No. 6998, NBER: Harvard.

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Further reading

  • Blank, R. (2002), ‘Evaluating Welfare Reform in the US’, NBER Working Paper No. 8983, NBER: Harvard.

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  • Eissa, N. and Hoynes, H. (1998), ‘The Earned Income Tax Credit and Labor Supply of Married Couples’, NBER Working Paper No. 6856, NBER: Harvard.

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  • Millar, J. and Rowlingson, K. (2001), Lone Parents Employment and Social Policy: Cross-National Comparisons, The Policy Press: Bristol.

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  1. Paul Gregg
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  2. Susan Harkness
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Centre for Economic Performance, the London School of Economics and Queen Mary, University of London, UK

    Richard Dickens

  2. Centre for Economic Performance, the London School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK

    Paul Gregg

  3. Centre for Economic Performance, the London School of Economics and Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK

    Jonathan Wadsworth

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Gregg, P., Harkness, S. (2003). Welfare Reform and the Employment of Lone Parents. In: Dickens, R., Gregg, P., Wadsworth, J. (eds) The Labour Market Under New Labour. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598454_8

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