Labour force participation of women has increased substantially during the last decades, but women?'s wages are still on average lower than men?'s. Following the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method (1973), numerous econometric studies show that part of the differential is determined by...

[eng] France introduced the “Single-Parent Allowance” (Allocation de Parent Isolé: API) in 1976 to alleviate precariousness due to single parenthood. For some observers, the API may have dissuaded single mothers of young children from working. We set out to confirm or disprove that...