The role of education for poverty risks revisited: Couples, employment and profits from work–family policies

Tröger, Tobias; Verwiebe, Roland

doi:10.1177/0958928715589068

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“…Moreover, scholars have underlined the tight link between the sub-replacement fertility rates that have characterized many European countries over the past decades and gender inequality in employment and wages (Esping-Andersen, 2009;McDonald, 2013). At the individual level, studies have shown that there is a tight relationship between female and maternal employment and household poverty (Barbieri and Bozzon, 2016;Troger and Verwiebe, 2015). Moreover, greater equality in employment translates into a more equal division of domestic work (Dotti Sani, 2014).…”

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The economic crisis and changes in work–family arrangements in six European countries

Sani

2017

Journal of European Social Policy

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Over the past decades, there has been a substantial increase in female labour force participation, and the number of dual-earner and female-earner households has risen throughout western countries. However, the recent economic crisis has caused large losses in employment for both women and men, potentially yielding unexpected consequences for the evolution of work-family arrangements. This article carries out a comparative analysis of the relationship between the 2008/2009 economic crisis and work-family arrangements in Europe. Using data for six countries from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, this article fills a gap in the literature by addressing three issues: (1) whether work-family arrangements have changed from before to after the beginning of the economic downturn in countries with different gender and welfare regimes (Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom), (2) whether changes in work-family arrangements have occurred at different levels of the social strata and (3) whether couples have moved from dual-earner to male-or female-breadwinner. The results indicate changes in work-family arrangements in those countries worst hit by the economic crisis, Greece and Spain, where dual-earner and male-breadwinner households have decreased and no-earner and femalemain-earner households have increased. Moreover, the results show that in these two countries, all social strata-proxied through women's level of education-have been affected by the crisis. In contrast, only moderate changes in work-family arrangements among all women can be observed in countries less hit by the economic downturn. The findings for the two southern European countries are troubling, as the increases in no-earner and female-breadwinner households point to worsening economic conditions throughout the population and to a halt in the process that for several decades had been leading to more equality in the distribution of employment between genders.

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The economic crisis and changes in work–family arrangements in six European countries

Sani

2017

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…Based on the data available here, it can only be plausibly assumed that mothers with an academic degree can be equated with mothers with a high income, because no data are available on the actual income situation of the families studied. At least as far as school success is concerned, there are studies available regarding the positive effects of parents' labor market participation [51] and especially those of mothers, which see positive effects on the children solely through the higher labor market participation regardless of income [52].…”

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“What Can I Be When I Grow Up?”—The Influence of Own and Others’ Career Expectations on Adolescents’ Perception of Stress in Their Career Orientation Phase

2021

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The future that adolescents are growing up to live and work in becomes increasingly complex and vague, making job choice a moving target. Thus, adolescents develop and are confronted with a number of different options for what job they wish to take up and have to balance their own and their social environment’s job aspirations for them. Prior research has suggested including more dynamic approaches to understanding career choice and counseling. In this research, we therefore draw on the possible selves approach and aim at understanding how far imbalance between adolescents’ own and their social environments’ expectations for their vocational future will cause stress. In an online mixed-methods study, 163 adolescent participants, aged 14–22, reported their own and their parents’, teachers’, and friends’ emotions, future orientation, and perceived stress regarding the career choice. Results showed a variety of expectations for future careers held by participants and their social environment, as well as emotions regarding these expectations. Positive deactivating emotions (satisfaction and relief) negatively predicted adolescents’ stress and strain and the older and closer to final job choice participants were, the more they reported stress and strain. These findings suggest including adolescents’ social environment in the career choice process.

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“…Researchers have drawn attention to factors such as social support, education, and health as strong determinants of family poverty resilience, especially among poor-income populations [ 60 , 61 , 62 ]. Although it is generally accepted that the built environment has a substantial influence on community well-being, especially that related to social and health issues [ 4 , 9 , 42 ], less attention has been paid to its interactions with household economics.…”

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Healthy Urban Environmental Features for Poverty Resilience: The Case of Detroit, USA

Leandro-Reguillo¹,

Stuart

2021

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Within the existing relationship among urban environment, health, and poverty, it is necessary to clarify and characterize the influence that the physical environment has on community socioeconomic outcomes. Given that Detroit has one of the highest poverty rates among large metropolitan areas in the United States, this study aims to identify environmental and urban features that have influenced poverty in this city by assessing whether changes in household income are associated with characteristics of the built environment. The difference of median household income (DMHI) between 2017 and 2013 and 27 environmental and urban variables were investigated using both geographic distribution mapping and statistical correlation analysis. Results suggest that proximity of housing to job opportunity areas, as well as to certain educational and health-related facilities, were positively related to increasing household incomes. These findings outline a healthy urban design that may benefit community socioeconomic outcomes—specifically a design with dense and mixed-use areas, good accessibility, high presence of urban facilities, and features that promote a healthy lifestyle (involving physical activity and a healthy diet). In this sense, urban planning and public health may be important allies for poverty resilience.

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The role of education for poverty risks revisited: Couples, employment and profits from work–family policies

Cited by 8 publications

References 72 publications

The economic crisis and changes in work–family arrangements in six European countries

The economic crisis and changes in work–family arrangements in six European countries

“What Can I Be When I Grow Up?”—The Influence of Own and Others’ Career Expectations on Adolescents’ Perception of Stress in Their Career Orientation Phase

Healthy Urban Environmental Features for Poverty Resilience: The Case of Detroit, USA

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