Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65975 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2010-29
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
The recent welfare-to-work reform requires lone parents with older children to be available for work. This article examines the likely effect of this reform and the proposed extension with regards to the employment rate of lone parents. It is argued that it will not lead to the desired increase in the employment rate of lone parents as the target group is too small and the levels of multiple disadvantages within the group too high. Indeed, ability to work cannot be equated with the age of the youngest child but needs to take into account the characteristics of lone parents as well.
Subjects: 
lone parents
welfare-to-work
activation
child poverty
JEL: 
I38
J16
J48
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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