compared with the highest income quintiles, whereas in Finland, Germany and Spain more lone mothers in the low-income quintiles … the income packages of lone mothers, 2) the proportion of lone mothers receiving child maintenance and the level of child … covers data from five countries: Finland, Germany, Spain, UK and the USA. Our results show that in all countries except the …

This book considers how a wide range of policies, including tax/benefit policies, childcare policy, and employment and … current and future labour supply. It covers Canada (in particular the province of Québec), Finland, Sweden and the United …

We compare employment rates of mothers and childless women over the life course across the birth cohorts from 1940 to …), conducted between 1986 and 2016. The results show that although employment rates of mothers have increased across cohorts, the … spread of part-time work has led to a declining work volume of mothers with young children. Return to the workplace is …

We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to … partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation … health, higher employment, and longer working hours. We estimate a Heckman selection model for employment and hours worked. A …

Does employment during motherhood change peoples preferences? We study whether the experience of employment during …’s employment on children’s wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and … non-mothers who work and mothers who do not work are more likely to agree that pre-school children suffer if mothers work …

their experiences of working with lone white mothers of mixed-parentage children in England. Social workers' understandings …. The analysis highlights the need for a greater awareness of racism and social disapproval experienced by mothers, and how …-parentage children are discussed and key questions are asked about the use of terminology and how this influences social work practice …

, the employment of mothers, and especially mothers with young children, is lower. This paper proposes a four …How does the structure of a country's childcare market influence maternal employment? Childcare markets vary across … countries, leading mothers to rely on various forms of care depending on what is available to them in both the public (state …