an article by Núria Sánchez-Mira (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) and Jacqueline O’Reilly (University of Sussex, UK) published in Work, Employment and Society Volume 33 Issue 3 (June 2019)
Abstract
The 2008 crisis had a significant impact on household employment in some European countries. An analysis of the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions generated a new cross-national typology of household employment structures and showed how these changed during the crisis and austerity period, capturing the experiences of high and low qualified households.
Findings indicate that dual earning households are not always a consequence of gender equality but result from economic necessity or employment opportunities.
The re-emergence of traditional male breadwinner households is often the result of female unemployment, especially for lower educated women. An increase in female single earners and workless households is evident in countries hit hardest by the employment crisis.
The value of this cross-national typology, rooted in the interaction of educational effects and employment opportunities, is allowing comparison both within and between European countries, going beyond established typologies based on policy frameworks or gender cultures.
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Tuesday, 11 June 2019
Monday, 5 November 2012
Work IS the best route out of poverty – half the time
via JRF - Combined Feed by Chris Goulden
Is work the best route out of poverty?
This cliché has been pinging around again following Iain Duncan Smith’s interview yesterday [on 25 October], where he said that unemployed people need “to learn that it’s the right thing to go to work”.
On the face of it, the answer is a clear yes but if you look more closely at the evidence, it’s only a half-truth.
Proponents of the ‘work is best’ view often compare the relative income poverty figures for households where everyone is working full-time (3% before housing costs) with those where all adults are out of work (much higher at 55%).
But the latter kinds of households are very different. It is not the case that if you move from being a workless to fully employed household, you immediately lower your risk of poverty to 3%.
Continue reading
Is work the best route out of poverty?
This cliché has been pinging around again following Iain Duncan Smith’s interview yesterday [on 25 October], where he said that unemployed people need “to learn that it’s the right thing to go to work”.
On the face of it, the answer is a clear yes but if you look more closely at the evidence, it’s only a half-truth.
Proponents of the ‘work is best’ view often compare the relative income poverty figures for households where everyone is working full-time (3% before housing costs) with those where all adults are out of work (much higher at 55%).
But the latter kinds of households are very different. It is not the case that if you move from being a workless to fully employed household, you immediately lower your risk of poverty to 3%.
Continue reading
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