amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by … maternal education, but only when both the educational gradient of single motherhood and the child poverty gap by single …

poverty with a multi-level analysis across 18 affluent democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all …. By far, the U.S. has the highest rate of poverty among single mothers. The analyses show that single mother poverty is a … countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single mother poverty than for poverty among the overall population …

Wage Inequality -- Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China -- The Geography of Poverty … Democracy -- Part II (In)decent Work -- Decent Work for Change -- Minimum Wages and Poverty with Income-Sharing -- What Is … Employed Mothers in Australia Find Time for Both Market Work and Childcare -- Part III Labour and Institutions -- Labour …

Western countries differ greatly in the extent to which single mothers participate in the labour market. Using LIS data … that influence the work decision for single mothers. The results suggest that a large part of the cross-country variation … in the employment rates of single mothers can be explained by their different demographic characteristics and by the …

Western countries differ greatly in the extent to which single mothers participate in the labor market. Using LIS data … that influence the work decision for single mothers. The results suggest that a large part of the cross country variation … in the employment rates of single mothers can be explained by their different demographic characteristics and by the …

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 …

in women's human capital, relative to men. The resulting rise in the opportunity cost of children leads to a subsequent …