High welfare dependency and poverty rate among lone mothers prompted a workfare reform of the Norwegian welfare system … not only led to increased earnings and educational attainment – in the process lowering welfare caseloads and therefore … easing the government’s financial burden – but also reduced poverty. …

once. We find that the workfare reform did not only increase earnings and education as well as lower welfare caseloads and …The generous Nordic model of welfare is commonly viewed as an exceptional success both in terms of equality and … and high welfare dependency, such as lone mothers, were vastly overrepresented among the poor. This motivated a workfare …

once. We find that the workfare reform did not only increase earnings and education as well as lower welfare caseloads and …The generous Nordic model of welfare is commonly viewed as an exceptional success both in terms of equality and … and high welfare dependency, such as lone mothers, were vastly overrepresented among the poor. This motivated a workfare …

, because a sizeable group was unable to offset the loss of out-of-work welfare benefits with gains in earnings. This suggests …There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives … for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of …

, because a sizeable group was unable to offset the loss of out-of-work welfare benefits with gains in earnings. This suggests …There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives … for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of …

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