Lone Mothers, Paid Work and Social Security : a Study of the Tapered Earnings' Disregard for Lone Parents Receiving Supplementary Benefit, 1982-1983
In November 1980 the United Kingdom government introduced new regulations concerning the amount of supplementary benefit that lone parents could keep after taking account of their earnings. The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of this measure upon the labour market participation rates of lone mothers and to evaluate its significance in relation to other factors affecting such participation.
Main Topics: Variables:
Personal characteristics of lone mothers, including: marital status; tenure; number and ages of children; selected items of paid work history; economic circumstances; attitudes to labour market participation; knowledge of social security systems; and access to child care. Preferences over paid work/domestic activity combinations; take-up of means-tested benefits.
| Item Type | Dataset |
|---|---|
| Publisher | UK Data Service |
| DOI | 10.5255/UKDA-SN-2033-1 |
| Date made available | 1 May 1985 |
| Keywords | specific social services: use and availability, social welfare policy and systems, labour and employment, academic achievement, application for employment, attitudes, boarding schools, care of dependants, child care, child-minding, children, commuting, divorce, educational admission, educational background, employment, employment history, families, financial support, health, home ownership, households, in-service training, income, job changing, job hunting, job satisfaction, marital status, marriage, marriage dissolution, married men, married women workers, mortgages, mothers, occupational qualifications, one-parent families, part-time employment, physically disabled persons, place of residence, rates, rented accommodation, rents, school-leaving, schools, social attitudes, social security, social security benefits, subsidiary employment, travelling time, voluntary work, wages, women's employment, work attitude, working mothers, hours of work |
| Temporal coverage |
From To January 1982 January 1983 |
| Geographic coverage | Great Britain |
| Resource language | Other |
| Departments |
LSE > Academic Departments > Social Policy LSE |