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"From a social policy perspective, single parents - for the most part single mothers - are an important target group … report at hand examines employment and living conditions of single mothers, in particular of recipients of unemployment … benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II). Focusing on this group of single mothers receiving basic income support for needy jobseekers …
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mothers in reunified Germany, 1992-2009. During this time, East and West Germany share similar family policies, yet, the … regions differ markedly with regard to cultural orientations towards working mothers. Our comparison therefore allows drawing … mothers who were born and raised in the east, but had their first child after moving to the west provide us with key insights …
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: attitudes towards the employment of mothers, which were transferred through socialisation in childhood and adolescence, or …
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-parent-families differ according to poverty-risks and claiming of social benefits. The following paper examines mothers' duration of …
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approach where mothers' wages upon return to the job are compared with those of their female colleagues within the same firm …
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technique to account for possible selection effects. Our findings indicate that mothers tend to suffer a moderate wage penalty … mothers working in the public sector. The differences across sectors may be explained by considerable job flexibility and a …
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lone mothers receiving means-tested unemployment benefits in Germany. Since the 2005 Hartz IV labor market policy reforms … employment offices. Thus, lone mothers' participation in labor market programs is studied empirically here. This can contribute … to determining the extent to which lone mothers are treated as adult workers in interactions with welfare state …
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technique to account for possible selection effects. Our findings indicate that mothers tend to suffer a moderate wage penalty … mothers working in the public sector. The differences across sectors may be explained by considerable job flexibility and a …
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differently in the labor market. In this paper, I examine one potential underlying mechanism: the re-entry of mothers in the labor … responsible for the educational divide in mothers' employment. Hypotheses are derived from human capital theory and labor supply …
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approach where mothers' wages upon return to the job are compared with those of their female colleagues within the same firm …
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