Lone parent transitions, employment transitions and poverty outcomes

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National University of Ireland, Galway

Trinity College Dublin

Table of Contents

• ABOUT THE ESRI 3
• THE AUTHORS 4
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4
• TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
• List of Tables 7
• List of Figures 8
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 9
• CHAPTER 1 13
• 1.1 introduction 13
• 1.1.1 Research questions 14
• 1.2 Previous Research 14
• 1.2.1 Lone parenthood and poverty 14
• 1.2.2 Family structure transitions and poverty outcomes 16
• Union dissolution and poverty 16
• Unpartnered births and poverty transitions 17
• Re-partnering and poverty/income 17
• 1.2.3 Lone parenthood, employment and poverty outcomes 18
• 1.3 Policy Context 20
• Income and employment supports for lone parents 20
• Childcare supports 21
• Maintenance payments policy 23
• 1.4 PREVALENCE of lone parent households 24
• 1.4 Methodology 26
• 1.4.1 Measuring economic vulnerability 26
• Characteristics of the sample 29
• 1.4.2 Modelling strategy 30
• 1.5 OUTLINE of the report 32
• CHAPTER 2 33
• 2.1 Characteristics of Lone Mothers and Coupled Mothers 33
• Differences between never married and previously married lone parents 36
• 2.2 Income sources for Lone Parents 37
• 2.3 Family Trajectories 38
• 2.4 Employment TRansitions 40
• 2.5 Summary 42
• CHAPTER 3 44
• 3.1 Introduction 44
• 3.2 RATES of Economic Vulnerability Among Lone Parent and Two Parent Families 44
• 3.3 WHICH lone parents are economically vulnerable? 45
• 3.4 Economic Vulnerability transitions 48
• 3.5 Does entry into lone parenthood lead to Economic Vulnerability? 50
• 3.6 WHICH factors are associated with exiting economic vulnerabilty for lone parent familIes? 58
• 3.7 Summary 60
• CHAPTER 4 62
• 4.1 Summary of findings 62
• 4.1.1 Family and employment transitions 64
• 4.1.2 Family transitions and economic vulnerability 64
• 4.1.3 Factors associated with economic vulnerability exit for lone parent families 66
• 4.2 Policy implications 66
• APPENDIX I 71
• REFERENCES 79
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