Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71601 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 05/21
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
This paper uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate single women's labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. We find evidence of small labour supply effects for two of such reforms. A third reform in 1999 instead led to a significant increase in single mothers' hours of work. This increase was primarily driven by women who changed job, suggesting that labour supply adjustments within a job are harder than across jobs. The presence of hours inflexibility within jobs and labour supply adjustments through job mobility are strongly confirmed when we look at hours changes by stated labour supply preferences. Finally, we find little overall effect on wages.
Subjects: 
Job mobility
Hours flexibility
Labour supply preferences
Hours-wage trade-off
Monopsony
JEL: 
C23
H31
I38
J12
J13
J22
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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