Lone mothers are among the groups most affected by income poverty in Germany. Previous research shows that both lone … motherhood) and lone motherhood per se (shaped by institutional contexts) on lone mothers’ poverty. Three major routes to lone … motherhood can be identified that differ regarding their timing, selectivity and related risk of poverty: lone motherhood after …

Considerable attention focuses on the risks of poverty, defined as individual-level labor market and family … poverty in terms of prevalences (share of the population with a risk) and penalties (increased probability of poverty … to the U.S. We show that prevalences cannot explain high U.S. poverty as the U.S. has below average prevalences. Rather …