Changes in Labour Market Status Surrounding Union Dissolution in France

Bonnet, Carole; Solaz, Anne; Algava, Elisabeth; Mandelbaum, Jonathan

doi:10.3917/pope.1002.0251

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“…In studies of the situation in the USA, Couch et al () and Tamborini et al (, ) found that from the early 1970s to the early 2000s there was a significant increase in women's earnings following divorce, while McKeever and Wolfinger () found a significant increase of employment among divorced women. This has also been found in France (Bonnet et al, ), The Netherlands, Denmark, Italy (Van Damme et al, ) and Israel (Raz‐Yurovich, ). Raz‐Yurovich () has shown that divorced salaried women in Israel have increased their level of economic activity through continuous and stable employment and by taking on extra jobs.…”

Section: The Economic Implications Of Divorce and Welfare Policymentioning

confidence: 56%

“…In general, we found that, regardless of time period, the divorced mothers in our study tended, on average, to increase their earnings one to three years following the divorce, a finding that is consistent with previous research (Raz‐Yurovich, ; Tamborini et al, ). As a strategy for coping with the financial losses inherent in divorce, women tend to increase their employment (Bonnet et al, ; McKeever & Wolfinger, ; Raz‐Yurovich, ; Van Damme et al, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Mothers' postdivorce earnings in the context of welfare policy change

Herbst

Kaplan

2016

Int J Soc Welfare

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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.

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Section: The Economic Implications Of Divorce and Welfare Policymentioning

confidence: 56%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mothers' postdivorce earnings in the context of welfare policy change

Herbst

Kaplan

2016

Int J Soc Welfare

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“…Similarly to other countries, France has seen an increase in the diversity of family forms and life course patterns in the last decades. This has been especially marked by an increase in cohabitation, unmarried pregnancies, divorce and separations (Bonnet, Solaz, & Algava, 2010), and an increasingly delayed entry into parenthood (Toulemon, Pailhé, & Rossier, 2008). Unlike other European countries, these changes have had little effect on completed fertility: France has one of Europe's highest fertility rates.…”

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Being born to a single mother in France: trajectories of father’s involvement over the first year of life

Pailhé

Panico

Heers

2020

Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

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This paper characterises families where the father is not living (or not living permanently) with the child from around birth, and identifies the drivers of the evolution of father contact over the first year of life across different types of household. We use a recent, nationally representative cohort of children born in France in 2011, Elfe (the Etude longitudinale française depuis l’enfance), and latent clustering techniques to identify different groups of households characterised by non-residential fatherhood. We show that non-residential fatherhood from around birth is not a marginal phenomenon in France, and it corresponds to a heterogeneity of situations, describing both advantaged and low involvement fathers, as well less disadvantaged but involved groups. Over the first year of life, most non-resident fathers managed to keep in contact with their child, including relatively disadvantaged groups such as migrant and young parents, although groups characterised by low father involvement shortly after birth lost contact. On the other hand, among a group of very involved non-resident fathers who were in a relationship with the mother, we observed high levels of contact and indeed co-residence when the child was one year of age. A number of channels emerged to explain the correlations between our latent groups and father contact at one year: notably, father engagement around birth, especially whether the father formally recognised the child. Trajectories of father–child involvement and of parental relationships are therefore at least as important as socio-economic conditions to understand future father contact.

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“…Our analyses controlled for age and age squared, number of children in the household in 2006, educational level (primary/lower secondary, upper/postsecondary, tertiary) and employment status in 2006 (employed, unemployed, retired, inactive). For employment, we tested a dynamic variable to account for changes in employment status after separation, such as inactive women entering the labor market in France (Bonnet et al 2010); however, the results were not conclusive due to large confidence intervals (see Sect. 5).…”

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Risk of Major Depressive Episodes After Separation: The Gender-Specific Contribution of the Income and Support Lost Through Union Dissolution

2018

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Marital status and union dissolution are strongly associated with health. Separated men and women have a mental health disadvantage compared to partnered individuals. The lower financial and social resources of separated individuals partly explained their poorer health. However, it is unclear whether this association is due to the loss in income and support precisely experienced through the separation. Due to the frequent asymmetry in partners' individual resources within couples, these losses are gender-specific, giving rise to a debate currently in France. As part of this debate, we explored to what extent gender-specific losses contribute to the separation/mental health association. We used the two-wave survey ''Health and Occupational Trajectories,'' looking at 7321 individuals aged 25-74 in couple in 2006. We analyzed their depressive symptoms self-reported at second wave (2010) and their association with separation between the two waves; we took into account the concomitant social and income changes, as well as the socioeconomic and health situation in 2006. Separation between 2006 and 2010 is significantly associated with depressive symptoms in 2010, independently of the situation in 2006; it is associated with a loss of income, mainly in women, and a loss of support,

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Changes in Labour Market Status Surrounding Union Dissolution in France

Cited by 10 publications

References 29 publications

Mothers' postdivorce earnings in the context of welfare policy change

Mothers' postdivorce earnings in the context of welfare policy change

Being born to a single mother in France: trajectories of father’s involvement over the first year of life

Risk of Major Depressive Episodes After Separation: The Gender-Specific Contribution of the Income and Support Lost Through Union Dissolution

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