Overview

Abstract (English)

Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, we explore links between mothers’ family, work and economic trajectories during the transition to single motherhood. We employ descriptive and multivariate techniques, and the sample of families that experience parental separation between two survey cycles, to examine how pre-separation labour-force involvement, income and other characteristics (including education, number, age and sex of children) influence whether mothers are in paid employment after separation. findings indicate that mothers’ pre-separation work and economic trajectory is a strong predictor of her single-mother family’s economic situation afterwards.

Abstract (French)

Please note that abstracts only appear in the language of the publication and might not have a translation.