abstract: 'We examined in this study the implications of divorce for mothers''

  earnings, comparing the 1990s and the 2000s, and illuminating

  developments in welfare policy for single-parent families over those two

  decades. After the welfare reform of 2003, the economic autonomy of

  single mothers, established through a combination of welfare state-based

  benefits and paid labour, was delegitimised, with a turn toward the

  marketplace. Using a unique data set created for this research by

  merging Israeli census files for 1995-2008, annual administrative

  employment records from the National Insurance Institute and the Tax

  Authority, and data from the Civil Registry of Divorce, we found that

  most mothers tended to increase their income from paid labor following

  divorce. However, they did so significantly more prior to the welfare

  cuts than after the cuts. The results can inform policy discussions

  about how mothers'' postdivorce earnings might be affected by welfare

  policy shifts.'
affiliation: 'Herbst, A (Corresponding Author), Bar Ilan Univ, Gender Studies, IL-5290002
  Ramat Gan, Israel.

  Herbst, Anat, Bar Ilan Univ, Gender Studies, IL-5290002 Ramat Gan, Israel.

  Kaplan, Amit, Tel Aviv Yaffo Acad Coll, Tel Aviv, Israel.'
author: Herbst, Anat and Kaplan, Amit
author-email: anat.herbst@gmail.com
author_list:
- family: Herbst
  given: Anat
- family: Kaplan
  given: Amit
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/ijsw.12205
eissn: 1468-2397
files: []
issn: 1369-6866
journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE
keywords: 'divorce; social welfare policy; gender; single mothers; family policy;

  earnings; wages; the labor market; quantitative research'
keywords-plus: 'ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES; WOMENS EARNINGS; LONE MOTHERS; DIVORCE;

  DISSOLUTION; GENDER; CHILDREN; WORK; INEQUALITY; EMPLOYMENT'
language: English
month: JUL
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '75'
orcid-numbers: Herbst-Debby, Anat/0000-0003-2365-9724
pages: 222-234
papis_id: 3aa286b920913d7777f6de4c28e74685
ref: Herbst2016motherspostdivorce
times-cited: '11'
title: Mothers' postdivorce earnings in the context of welfare policy change
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000379520900003
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '15'
volume: '25'
web-of-science-categories: Social Work
year: '2016'