Welfare Policy, Language Group, and the Duration of Lone Motherhood Spells

Dooley, Martin D.; Finnie, Ross

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“…I would assume that another reason is that women in rural areas have a better position in the marriage market, since more women than men tend to migrate away from rural areas. Very similar effects of settlement size have been found for the North American context (Mott/Moore 1983;Duncan/Hoffmann 1985;Dooley/Finnie 2008). One explanation provided by Mott and Moore (1983) is that rural areas provide fewer life-style alternatives to marriage.…”

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“…However, Lampard and Peggs (1999) find for Great Britain that women in professional occupations generally have lower repartnering rates than those working in occupations requiring lower qualifications. Similarly, Dooley and Finnie (2008) find a negative effect of earned income on lone mothers' partnership formation in Canada. Thus, these studies find that those earning higher incomes have lower partnership formation rates.…”

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Employment characteristics and partnership formation among lone mothers in Russia

Zabel¹

2012

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Lone mothers’ poverty rates in Russia were very high in the period following the transition in 1991, and earnings inequalities between women increased. The aim of this paper is to examine to what extent lone mothers’ economic situation may have also influenced their rates of partnership formation. This can add to an understanding of how the influence of growing economic inequalities extends to other areas of the life course as well. The data used is from the Russian Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), and methods of event-history analysis are applied for the empirical investigations. The effect of occupation on partnership formation is compared before and after the transition, as earnings differences between those working in different occupations grew after 1991. The results indicate that lone mothers working in service occupations, in particular, had substantially higher rates of partnership formation than those working in higher-paying professional occupations requiring a university degree, both before and after the transition in 1991. However, no large changes in the effect of occupation on partnership formation are found for the period after 1991 compared to the period before transition. Zusammenfassung Armutsraten von alleinerziehenden Müttern in Russland waren in der Zeit nach dem politischen und ökonomischen Umbruch im Jahr 1991 besonders hoch, und Einkommensungleichheiten zwischen Frauen nahmen in dieser Periode ebenfalls zu. Daher ist die Fragestellung in dieser Studie, inwiefern die ökonomische Situation von Alleinerziehenden auch ihre Übergangsraten in neue Partnerschaften beeinflusst hat. Dies kann dazu beitragen, zu verstehen, inwiefern wachsende ökonomische Ungleichheiten sich auch auf andere Bereiche des Lebenslaufs auswirken. Die empirischen Analysen beruhen auf Daten des russischen Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). Es wird der Einfluss des Berufs auf Partnerschaftsbildungsraten von Alleinerziehenden vor und nach 1991 anhand von Übergangratenmodellen untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Alleinerziehende, die im Dienstleistungsbereich arbeiteten, sowohl vor wie auch nach 1991 deutlich höhere Partnerschaftsbildungsraten hatten als Alleinerziehende, die in höher entlohnten Berufen arbeiteten, die einen Universitätsabschluss voraussetzten. Allerdings wurden keine bedeutenden Veränderungen im Einfluss des Berufs auf Partnerschaftsbildungsraten nach 1991, im Vergleich zu vor 1991 gefunden.

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Employment characteristics and partnership formation among lone mothers in Russia

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2012

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“…In fact, he finds no significant differences in responses by marital status, age, or education. Dooley and Finnie (2008) study the effects of welfare policy on family formation.…”

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Teen families, welfare transfers, and the minimum wage: evidence from Canada

Sen

Ariizumi

2013

Canadian J of Economics

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This study evaluates the impacts of welfare transfers and the minimum wage on teen family formation by pooling provincial data from Canada between 1990 and2005. OLS estimates suggest that welfare transfers have had limited impact on teen births. On the other hand, a 10% increase in the minimum wage is significantly correlated with a 3% -5% rise in teen birth rates. This finding is explained by further regressions, which reveal that an increase in the minimum wage is significantly associated with (1) higher earnings among male teens, (2) an increase in teen marriage rates, and (3) an increase in fertility among married teens but not among unmarried females. Finally, estimates based on the 2003 and 2005 waves of the Canadian Community Health Surveys demonstrate that married teens are more likely to engage in sex as well as unprotected intercourse in comparison with single teens. JEL classification: H3, I3Familles adolescentes, aide sociale, et salaire minimum: résultats pour le Canada. Ce mémoireévalue l'impact de l'aide sociale et du salaire minimum sur la formation de familles adolescentes en groupant les données provinciales au Canada pour la période 1990-2005. Les estimésà l'aide de la méthode des moindres carrés ordinaires suggèrent que l'aide sociale a eu un impact limité sur les grossesses d'adolescentes. D'autre part, une augmentation de 10% dans le niveau du salaire minimum est co-reliée de manière significativeà une croissance de 3à 5% dans les grossesses adolescentes. Ce résultat est expliqué par des calculs additionnels qui montrent qu'une augmentation du salaire minimum est associée de manière significative (1)à des gains plusélevés pour les jeunes hommes adolescents; (2)à un accroissement du taux de nuptialité, et (3) un accroissement du taux de fécondité des couples adolescents mariés mais pas pour les adolescentes non mariées. Enfin, des estimés fondés sur les Enquêtes sur la santé dans les collectivités canadiennes de 2003 et 2005 montrent que les adolescents et adolescentes mariés sont davantage susceptibles d'avoir des relations sexuelles, et des relations sexuelles non-protégées, que les adolescents et adolescentes non-mariés.We thank two anonymous referees for some very useful comments. The usual disclaimer applies.

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The risks of being a lone mother on income support in Canada and the USA

Gazso

McDaniel

2010

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -This paper aims to explore how neo-liberalism shapes income support policy and lone mothers' experiences in Canada and the USA. Design/methodology/approach -A critical comparative analysis is undertaken of how Canadian and US governments take up sociological concepts of risk, market citizenship, and individualization, whether explicitly or implicitly, in the design and administration of neo-liberal income support policies directed at lone mothers. Specifically, the contradictory life circumstances that Canadian and American lone mothers experience when they access income supports that are designed ostensibly to construct/reconstruct them as citizens capable of risk taking in their search for employment and selfsufficiency are compared. Findings -The paper finds that the realities for poor lone mothers are remarkably similar in the two countries and therefore argue that income support policies, particularly welfare-to-work initiatives, underpinned by neo-liberal tenets, can act in a counter-intuitive manner exposing lone mothers to greater rather than lesser economic and social insecurity/inequality, and constructing them as risk aversive and dependent.Research limitations/implications -The economic and social implications/contradictions of neoliberal restructuring of income support policies for lone mothers is revealed. Originality/value -This paper contributes to broader scholarship on the gendered dimensions of neo-liberal restructuring of welfare states in late modernity.

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Welfare Policy, Language Group, and the Duration of Lone Motherhood Spells

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References 18 publications

Employment characteristics and partnership formation among lone mothers in Russia

Employment characteristics and partnership formation among lone mothers in Russia

Teen families, welfare transfers, and the minimum wage: evidence from Canada

The risks of being a lone mother on income support in Canada and the USA

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