abstract: 'Labour market reforms implemented in recent years in a number of

  countries have aimed to increase participation rates among single

  parents in order to reduce the disproportionately high poverty rate and

  share of benefit recipients among them. However, our quantitative

  analyses based on EU-LFS and EU-SILC indicate that paid work has to some

  extent become dissociated from material security. Although participation

  rates among single parents rose in the five years before the financial

  and economic crisis, their risk of being in poverty remained the same or

  actually increased. This finding holds true for different types of

  welfare state, as the comparison between Germany, France, Sweden and the

  UK shows. The potential poverty-reducing effects of increasing labour

  market participation are clearly being weakened by certain

  counter-trends. Possible explanations, which apply to varying extents in

  the four countries, are declining market wages and reductions in social

  transfers. Moreover, previously latent material risks of lone parenting

  unfold with the modernisation of gender roles and the erosion of lone

  mothers `avant-garde'' role as working parents. This is a common

  challenge across countries which has so far not been addressed

  sufficiently by social and labour market policies.'
affiliation: 'Jaehrling, K (Corresponding Author), Univ Duisburg Essen, Inst Arbeit
  \& Qualifikat, Forsthausweg 2, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany.

  Jaehrling, Karen; Kalina, Thorsten; Mesaros, Leila, Univ Duisburg Essen, Inst Arbeit
  \& Qualifikat, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany.'
author: Jaehrling, Karen and Kalina, Thorsten and Mesaros, Leila
author-email: 'Karen.jaehrling@uni-due.de

  thorsten.kalina@uni-due.de

  leila.mesaros@uni-due.de'
author_list:
- family: Jaehrling
  given: Karen
- family: Kalina
  given: Thorsten
- family: Mesaros
  given: Leila
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s11577-014-0277-2
eissn: 1861-891X
files: []
issn: 0023-2653
journal: KOLNER ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SOZIOLOGIE UND SOZIALPSYCHOLOGIE
keywords: 'Lone parents; Welfare regime change; Activation; Working poor; Gender

  roles; Mother''s employment'
keywords-plus: INCOME INEQUALITY; FAMILY-STRUCTURE; EMPLOYMENT; REFORM; MODEL
language: German
month: SEP
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '48'
pages: 343-370
papis_id: e6331377eede57b4164df10ec77964d5
ref: Jaehrling2014workingmore
times-cited: '4'
title: Working More, Earning Less? The Dissociation Between Paid Work and Material
  Security Among Single Parents
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000342157200001
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '63'
volume: '66'
web-of-science-categories: Psychology, Social; Sociology
year: '2014'