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Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 9:60-86 (2002)
© 2002 Oxford University Press
Welfare state regimes and mothers' poverty
This article assesses the extent to which welfare states reduce poverty among single mothers and all mothers. I focus on two different typologies of welfare states: one identifies the gendered assumptions underlying social policies, while the other focuses on how welfare states and labor markets affect class inequality. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, I show how tax and transfer systems and employment supports in nine Western nations affect the poverty rates of single mothers and all mothers via-à-vis other groups. I find that, particularly in the Scandinavian nations and to a lesser extent in France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, the tax and transfer system, employment supports, or a combination of the two allow most single mothers to form autonomous household that escape poverty. I conclude by discussing how these findings speak to the different typologies of welfare state regimes.
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