The Employment of Separated Women in Europe: Individual and Institutional Determinants

Damme, Maike van; Kalmijn, Matthijs; Uunk, Wilfred

doi:10.1093/esr/jcn042

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“…Fourth, social benefits like single-parent allowances also turn out to have a negative effect on the labour supply of lone mothers. As the financial burden after the breakup is softened, women are less encouraged to increase their labour supply (van Damme et al 2009). …”

Section: Work Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Bernardi

Mortelmans

Larenza

2017

Lone Parenthood in the Life Course

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The socio-demographic profile of lone parents has changed in the last decades. Being mostly widowed men and women or young single mothers until the 1970s, lone parents are nowadays mostly divorced and separated parents, even though they are still by and large mothers rather than fathers. As a consequence, the experience of lone parenthood has also dramatically changed. Less objects of pity or stigmatized with shame, lone parents and their children are more than ever bound by legal arrangements to the other parent and are caught in more dynamic family trajectories.There are at least two remarkable changes that certainly need to be addressed by research on lone parenthood: its boundaries and its diversity. Both aspects are connected and have potential implications for lone parents and their children. First, the diversity and complexity of legal and residential arrangements of parents and children make it difficult to establish the borders between a full-time and a part-time one-parent household. When child custody or parental authority are shared, can we still talk about lone parents? Children circulate more and more between two or more parental households after separation, and more than one parent may be financially and legally responsible for them. One direct consequence of such changes in the

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Section: Work Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Bernardi

Mortelmans

Larenza

2017

Lone Parenthood in the Life Course

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“…Attention has also been paid to the extent and the character of welfare transfers, i.e., universal (e.g., Sweden) or means-tested (e.g., the United Kingdom), showing that financial deterioration after union dissolution is smaller in countries with more generous benefits for lone mothers (ibid.). Furthermore, policies targeting mothers' full-time employment, in particular the availability and acceptability of public childcare, are likely to improve women's economic situation (Raeymaeckers et al 2008;van Damme, Kalmijn, and Uunk 2009). At the same time, welfare benefits, public childcare provision, and easy access to paid full-time employment, i.e., arrangements aimed at increasing women's economic independence, are also likely to reduce women's incentive to repartner for financial reasons (de Graaf and Kalmijn 2003;Dewilde and Uunk 2004).…”

Section: Cross-national Variation In Repartnering Behaviourmentioning

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Cross-national differences in women's repartnering behaviour in Europe: The role of individual demographic characteristics

Gałęzewska¹,

Perelli‐Harris²,

Berrington³

2017

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BACKGROUNDWith rising union instability across Europe, more individuals now re-enter the partner market and eventually repartner. The increase in cohabitation may also be influencing repartnering behaviour. While several studies examine individual-level characteristics related to repartnering, few take a broader view and compare repartnering levels or explore how demographic characteristics associated with repartnering differ across Europe. OBJECTIVEWe describe levels of repartnering and the characteristics of those exposed to repartnering in 11 European countries. We then examine whether the relationship between women's demographic characteristics at union dissolution and repartnering are similar or different across countries. Given the recent increase in cohabitation, we pay particular attention to prior cohabitation and marriage, but we also compare age at first union dissolution, first union duration, and presence of children. METHODSUsing the Harmonized Histories database, we apply discrete-time hazard models separately by country and to pooled cross-national data. RESULTSDespite large differences in levels of repartnering, in most countries we find similar associations between demographic characteristics and repartnering. First union type did not matter after controlling for age and children, except in France, where those who previously cohabited had significantly lower risks of repartnering. Age at union

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“…This trend reflects the rising labor participation rates in successive cohorts of women, who increasingly stayed in the labor market when having children or returned to the labor market after a period of caring for the children (OECD 2006). Numerous studies have examined how motherhood and marital experiences affect women's labor market behavior during early-and midcareers (e.g., Brewster and Rindfuss 2000;Drobnič et al 1999;Van Damme et al 2009;Vlasblom and Schippers 2004). Relatively little is known about the relationships between women's childbearing and marital experiences earlier in life and their late-career transitions from work into retirement.…”

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Women’s Retirement Intentions and Behavior: The Role of Childbearing and Marital Histories

2015

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Although from a life course perspective women's retirement timing can be expected to be related to family events earlier in life, such as childbirth and divorce, empirical insights into these relationships show that women who postponed childbearing and still have children living at home during preretirement years have the intention to retire relatively late. For retirement behavior this effect was not statistically significant. Ever divorced single women both intend to and actually retire later than continuously married women. Repartnering after a divorce seems to offset the negative divorce effect: retirement timing intentions and behavior of repartnered women did not differ from continuously married women. Also the preretirement financial, health, and work opportunity structure -factors that are often central in studies among men -did play an explanatory role. Women who have a less beneficial preretirement financial situation, a better health situation, and challenging work intend to and actually retire relatively late.

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The Employment of Separated Women in Europe: Individual and Institutional Determinants

Cited by 55 publications

References 18 publications

Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Cross-national differences in women's repartnering behaviour in Europe: The role of individual demographic characteristics

Women’s Retirement Intentions and Behavior: The Role of Childbearing and Marital Histories

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