The results show that the increase in social assistance benefits has been a major factor behind the decline in employment rates of lone mothers in Ontario. It is stimated that each 1,000increaseinbenefitratesisassociatedwitha1.9percentagepointsreductionintheemploymentrateoflonemothers.Asaresult,95percentofthe5.9percentagepointincreaseintheQuebec−Ontarioemploymentrategapoflonemothersovertheperiod1988−90canbeattributedtotheincreaseinOntariobenefitsrelativetoQuebecby2,962. Labour market conditions do not appear to have had a major impact on employment rates in
Ontario over the period 1988-90. This is not very urprising given that the significant deterioration of the Ontario labour market took place after 1990. In particular, the unemployment rate of lone mothers in Ontario increased from 9.2 to 12.0 per cent in 1988-90, while it doubled by the year 1995 (21.7 per cent)
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