poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which …. Countries with low post-childbirth poverty include those with an explicit pro-natalist orientation and socio-democratic regimes …. High post-childbirth poverty rates are found in pro-traditional and South European conservative countries, and especially …

and the prevalence of in-work poverty. We compare two relative measures of in-work poverty: The individual definition … show a positive relationship between involuntary part-time work and in-work poverty according to the household definition …

reduced poverty. Yet given the extent of public resources invested, was this the most that policy makers could expect in terms … of reducing poverty? To answer this question, I estimate a discrete choice model of work and welfare participation … decisions, and use the behavioral estimates to derive the policy parameters that would have minimized poverty among lone mothers …

-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post … poverty gap in Central and Eastern Europe, while generous welfare policies, specifically higher levels of spending on pensions …

(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers ́labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …