La presente communication vise a expliquer un paradoxe. En effet, depuis les annees 70, on a enregistre une tendance generale a la baisse dans les gains reels et relatifs des jeunes adultes ages de moins de 35 ans. En depit du fait que la plupart des jeunes enfants vivent au sein de menages...

Les taux d'emploi et les gains des meres seules ont augmente sensiblement apres 1980 et, en 2000, les taux de faible revenu etaient descendus a de nouveaux creux record. Contrairement au cas des meres mariees, chez les meres seules la plus grande partie des hausses etait attribuable a la...

La question de savoir si les taux relatifs de mariages homogames ou assortatifs augmentent dans les democraties riches fait l'objet d'une importante controverse. Premierement, nous montrons que les resultats empiriques conflictuels qui alimentent le debat sont souvent un artefact d'autres...

Employment rates and earnings among single mothers improved significantly after 1980, and by 2000, low-income rates reached new historic lows. Unlike married mothers, most of the gains among lone mothers were the result of the dynamics of population change and cohort replacement as the large and...

Whether or not relative rates of assortative marriage have been rising in the affluent democracies has been subject to considerable dispute. First, we show how the conflicting empirical findings that have fueled the debate are frequently an artifact of alternative methodological strategies for...

Malgre des reformes relativement modestes du regime de bien-etre au Canada par rapport aux Etats Unis, les taux d'emploi et la remuneration des meres seules ont progresse depuis 1980 presque d'un meme ordre de grandeur dans ces deux pays. Nous allons montrer que la plupart des hausses au Canada...

Despite comparatively modest welfare reforms in Canada relative to those of the United States, employment rates and earnings among single mothers have risen by virtually identical magnitudes in the two countries since 1980. We show that most of the gains in Canada and a substantial share of the...

Our aim in this paper is to resolve a paradox. Since the 1970s, there has been a downward secular trend in the average real and relative earnings of young adults under the age of 35. Despite the fact that most young children live in households headed by adults under 35, there has been no...