The principal qualifying condition for welfare in Canada, unlike the US, is financial need - there are no demographic criteria. We use a time-series of annual, national cross-sections for the period 1981 through 1993 to estimate a model of lone-female headship. Our findings do not support the hypothesis that welfare benefit levels for one-parent and two-parent families are important determinants of the likelihood that a Canadian woman is a lone mother. In all models with provincial fixed effects, the coefficients for welfare benefits are small, statistically insignificant and often of the unexpected sign. We do find that the probability that a woman is a lone mother is generally associated in the expected fashion with her earnings capacity ...
We use administrative data to provide a first look at the dynamics of social assistance use among lo...
Book ChapterPolicy discussions regarding single parents often move to income maintenance issues. Whi...
The results of this study largely confirm the results of the author's previous study (Kapsalis, 1996...
The principal qualifying condition for welfare in Canada, unlike the United States, is financial nee...
L’objectif principal de cet article est d’analyser l’impact du programme d’assurance-chômage sur les...
A critical question in the design of welfare policies is whether totarget aid according to household...
A critical question in the design of welfare policies is whether to target aid according to househol...
This paper assesses the impact on the probability of welfare participation of budget constraint vari...
This paper evaluates the impact of the 1995-1998 Ontario welfare reforms on the standard of living a...
This thesis examines the process of welfare policy-making in Quebec with respect to single mothers a...
The results show that the increase in social assistance benefits has been a major factor behind the ...
Although Canada is contemplating major reforms of welfare policy, there is scant information regardi...
Previous research has illuminated the effects of the welfare reform in Canada post-1995. However, ve...
Many countries have instituted social assistance (SA) or welfare system reforms with goals of increa...
The study of lone-parent families has been high on the agenda of social science research for some ti...
We use administrative data to provide a first look at the dynamics of social assistance use among lo...
Book ChapterPolicy discussions regarding single parents often move to income maintenance issues. Whi...
The results of this study largely confirm the results of the author's previous study (Kapsalis, 1996...
The principal qualifying condition for welfare in Canada, unlike the United States, is financial nee...
L’objectif principal de cet article est d’analyser l’impact du programme d’assurance-chômage sur les...
A critical question in the design of welfare policies is whether totarget aid according to household...
A critical question in the design of welfare policies is whether to target aid according to househol...
This paper assesses the impact on the probability of welfare participation of budget constraint vari...
This paper evaluates the impact of the 1995-1998 Ontario welfare reforms on the standard of living a...
This thesis examines the process of welfare policy-making in Quebec with respect to single mothers a...
The results show that the increase in social assistance benefits has been a major factor behind the ...
Although Canada is contemplating major reforms of welfare policy, there is scant information regardi...
Previous research has illuminated the effects of the welfare reform in Canada post-1995. However, ve...
Many countries have instituted social assistance (SA) or welfare system reforms with goals of increa...
The study of lone-parent families has been high on the agenda of social science research for some ti...
We use administrative data to provide a first look at the dynamics of social assistance use among lo...
Book ChapterPolicy discussions regarding single parents often move to income maintenance issues. Whi...
The results of this study largely confirm the results of the author's previous study (Kapsalis, 1996...