In etwa einem Fünftel der Haushalte von Familien leben Alleinerziehende, die besonders armutsgefährdet sind. Zum zweiten befindet sich die Wirtschaft im Wandel: Digitalisierung und Dekarbonisierung führen dazu, dass sich Berufe und Arbeitswelt in den kommenden Jahren stark verändern...

Alleinerziehende gehören in Deutschland konstant zu den am meisten von Armut betroffenen Bevölkerungsgruppen: Während die Armutsrate der gesamten Bevölkerung im Jahr 2016 bei 16,5% und die von Paarhaushalten mit Kindern bei ‚nur‘ 10% lag, waren doppelt bzw. dreimal so viele (32,5%)...

In der Corona-Krise hat das häusliche Lebensumfeld für die Aktivitätsmöglichkeiten und Entwicklungschancen der Kinder in Deutschland stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dabei stellt sich die Lage hier in den meisten Fällen gut dar, wie eine eigene Auswertung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)...

Das Buch untersucht die Ursachen für das hohe Armutsrisiko alleinerziehender Mütter in Deutschland. Handelt es sich primär um Selektionseffekte von benachteiligten Frauen ins Alleinerziehen oder werden Frauen durch das Alleinerziehen arm? Welche Rolle spielt dabei der institutionelle Kontext...

In 2007 the Italian central government started a program by transferring funds to regional governments to develop both private and public early childcare services. Exploiting the different timing of program implementation across regions, we evaluate its effectiveness in boosting the public...

We study the relationship between a key early intervention policy designed to support families with children up to the age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care. The gradual build-up of over 3,600 Sure Start Children's Centres (SSCC), operated by Local Authorities...

In der Corona-Krise hat das häusliche Lebensumfeld für die Aktivitätsmöglichkeiten und Entwicklungschancen der Kinder in Deutschland stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dabei stellt sich die Lage hier in den meisten Fällen gut dar, wie eine eigene Auswertung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)...

Previous sociological research has overlooked the fact that a welfare state’s tax system does not solely redistribute from rich to poor (vertical) but also between family types (horizontal). Different types of families are treated differently due to (de-)familialization policies in the tax...

Birth rates differ strongly across European states, https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/55902despite the deep economic harmonisation process related to European integration. This study uses large scale administrative data from France and Germany to analyse and directly compare fertility patterns...

Die Entwicklung von Kindern wird sehr stark davon beeinflusst, in welchen Lebenslagen sie aufwachsen. Es ist jedoch nicht klar, welche Faktoren dabei eine Rolle spielen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird im vorliegenden Beitrag ein breites Spektrum an Indikatoren zur Familienkonstellation und zur Zeit...

Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare...

Die Entwicklung von Kindern wird sehr stark davon beeinflusst, in welchen Lebenslagen sie aufwachsen. Es ist jedoch nicht klar, welche Faktoren dabei eine Rolle spielen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird im vorliegenden Beitrag ein breites Spektrum an Indikatoren zur Familienkonstellation und zur Zeit...

Parental leave and child care are important instruments of family policies to improve work– family balance. This paper studies the impact of the substantial change in Germany’s parental leave system on maternal employment. The aim of the reform was to decrease birth-related maternal...

We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....

Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few have addressed the causal impact of such policies and the mechanisms they might trigger at the individual level to produce such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of...

This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s, which dramatically limited cash assistance for low-income families, on the next generation as they transition to adulthood. We estimate effects by gender and focus on behaviors that are important for socioeconomic...

Social protection policy in Brazil is a historically built patchwork of programmes that pay different values to people in the same situation, leaves many unprotected (in particular, 17 million children) and is fraught with duplications and other inefficiencies. This paper proposes an approach...

We study the design of a fair family policy in an economy where parenthood is regarded either as desirable or as undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent consumption approach in the consumption-fertility...

We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary vocational tracks allows us to...

This paper examines the effect of an expansion of subsidized early child care on maternal labor market outcomes. It contributes to the literature by analyzing, apart from the employment rate and agreed working hours, preferred working hours. Using the legal claim for subsidized child care...

We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....

The main objective of the study was an attempt to describe the policy for supporting families with children in Poland in the years 2004-2017 in the context of traditional support instruments. The following research methods were used in the article: analysis of the literature on the subject and...