| OCTOBER 14, 2011 |
| France's Minimum-Income Law Becomes a Disincentive to Work |
| When single uneducated males in France become 25 years old, the age when the French "minimum income" law kicks in, their participation in the labor force drops by 7% to 10%, according to Olivier Bargain and Karina Doorley of University College Dublin in Ireland. Single men constitute the core group of the social-assistance program's recipients. It's likely that the disincentive diminishes as the men age and the opportunity costs of staying out of the labor market increase, the researchers say. |
| Source: Caught in the trap? Welfare's disincentive and the labor supply of single men |
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