Although many have expressed concern over whether generous welfare policies discourage the employment of single mothers … employment. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we conduct a cross-national, multi-level analysis of the effects of social … policy generosity on single mother employment in 17 affluent democracies. We find high rates of single mother employment …

case that the degree to which single parents participate in paid employment influences their income packages? In those … countries where paid employment is common among single parents, is the main component of their income packages income from work …? In contrast, in those countries where paid employment is rare among single parents, are incomes mainly derived from …

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over …-effects model generates estimated employment assimilation profiles that are flatter and significantly different to those produced by …

- increasing dispersion of individual wages and changes in men's and women's employment rates. Others relate to shifts in household … rising women's employment exerted a sizable equalising effect. However, changes in labour market factors, in particular …

condition on the major mechanisms through which poverty risks are heightened: the risk of non-employment, and of having only a …