Lone Parenthood: An Economic AnalysisCambridge University Press, 5. 9. 1991 - 194 strán (strany) In 1989, one-parent families comprised seventeen percent of all families with dependent children, and their number has almost doubled in the past two decades. Almost all the information we have hitherto had about them comes from "snapshots" in cross-section surveys. This book analyzes for the first time the flows into and out of lone parenthood, using demographic and employment histories from a British national survey carried out in 1980. It studies how various socio-economic characteristics of women and their economic environment, such as welfare benefits, affect these flows, and how these interact to determine the attributes of the population of one-parent families, particularly their economic circumstances. The book also studies the lone parents' movements into and out of paid employment, and the effect of welfare benefits on their employment. The analyses are used to gauge the effects of alternative policies on one-parent families, their paid employment, and their living standards. |
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Space today | 1 |
ONEPARENT FAMILIES IN INDUSTRIALISED | 3 |
MODELLING THE DYNAMICS OF ONEPARENT FAMILIES | 26 |
AN ECONOMIC MODEL OF MARRIAGE AND MARITAL | 41 |
Search uncertainty and imperfect information | 44 |
Application to the analysis of marriage and marital | 50 |
Some empirical evidence on search and marriage | 57 |
The gateway to space | 68 |
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EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS AMONG LONE PARENTS | 113 |
THE DURATION OF LONE PARENTHOOD | 142 |
PROSPECTS AND POLICIES | 162 |
Notes | 172 |
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LONE PARENTS EMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE BENEFITS | 84 |
Cities and factories in space? | 104 |
Other lives other civilisations 313 | xxi |
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age at marriage assortative mating average birth rate births outside marriage Britain cent chapter characteristics chart child aged coefficient demographic rates dependent children divorce rate duration dependence duration of lone earning capacity effect employed equation Ermisch exit rate expected gain families with dependent full-time employment gain from marriage hazard rate higher welfare benefits household human capital wage impact increase indicates less likelihood lone motherhood lone parenthood lone parents lower macro variables marital dissolution marriage offers months of exposure net wage never-married mothers non-labour income number of children number of one-parent one-parent families optimal sort paid employment parameter estimates part-time employment percentage potential wage pre-marital birth previously-married lone mothers probability of employment proportion ratio real welfare benefits reduce remarriage rate SB guarantee search costs single mothers standard deviation standard error statistically significant stopping rule take a job transition rates trend unemployment rate women's relative pay youngest child