Our paper evaluates the labour supply effects of 'in work' benefit reforms in the UK, using the means-tested benefit reforms of July 1995 as an example.
This paper aims to investigate the impact of the UK Family Credit (FC) scheme (an in-work income transfer programme, i.e. one which is only payable to individuals who are in work) on the labour supply of lone mothers.
Social security payments are typically thought of as being aimed at those who are not in paid work, whether because of age, ill health, caring responsibilities or involuntary unemployment