and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants. These women differ from each other not only in their current socio … of female-headship. Results indicate that children residing in households headed by married women have stronger schooling …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … increased likelihood of poverty. Less risk of poverty can be found among those that have supervision over the workplace, have …

resulting poverty and inequality implications. The results show that only rich households are able to overcome the entry … income or consumption, they are likely to perpetuate poverty and reduce economic growth in the longer run. Consequently …

Recent analysis has suggested that poverty rates, and their variation across rich countries, is driven much less by the … prevalence of certain risks than by the poverty penaltyattached to the risks. Focusing on single motherhood as a poverty risk, it … condition on the major mechanisms through which poverty risks are heightened: the risk of non-employment, and of having only a …

This study set out to understand the poverty risks of single parents in the context of the rise of the dual … to 2010. There were to main findings. The first is that single parents face higher relative income poverty risks (AROP … linked to a higher standard of living in society and therefore a higher poverty threshold that fewer single parents can reach …

differences, especially regarding the proportion of widows, divorcees, and never-married women experiencing poverty. This review … lower poverty rates for women aged 65 or over who are on their own. …Comparisons of the economic position of single older women in various industrialized countries have shown substantial …

U.S. women have higher poverty rates than women in other affluent nations. In this paper I attempt to explain this … disparity by examining the effect of single motherhood, employment, and social assistance on women's poverty. With cross … of their high poverty rates. Compared to their counterparts in other Western nations, U.S. women, mothers and single …

states affect the poverty rates of mothers, single mothers, and other citizens in nine Western nations (Australia, Canada … programs reduce mothers' and single mothers' poverty rates-in an absolute sense, and also how welfare states reduce their … poverty rates relative to the poverty rates of other groups (such as female non-mothers or non-single mothers). I find that …

Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not … fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty … women with children entering the labor force. Many of these mothers, new entrants to the labor force, were unable or …

positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …