Activating Lone Parents: An Evidence-Based Policy Appraisal of Welfare-To-Work Reform in Britain
Activating Lone Parents: An Evidence-Based Policy Appraisal of Welfare-To-Work Reform in Britain
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激活单亲父母：英国福利工作改革的循证政策评估
DOI：
10.1017/s1474746411000364
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Tina Haux
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作者：
Tina Haux
2008年由前工党政府推出的福利改革要求（大多数）有较大孩子的单亲父母可以工作。本文探讨了这一改革对单亲父母就业率的潜在影响，以及最小子女的年龄是否是“工作能力”的一个良好指标。它表明，改革不会导致预期的增长，因为目标群体太小，而该群体内的多重不利因素太多。如果“工作能力”意味着“找到工作的能力”，就需要对它进行更广泛的概念化。
The 2008 welfare reform introduced by the previous Labour government requires (most) lone parents with older children to be available for work. This article examines the potential effect of this reform on the employment rate of lone parents and whether the age of the youngest child is a good indicator of ‘ability to work’. It suggests that reform will not lead to the desired increase as the target group is too small and the levels of multiple disadvantages within the group too high. ‘Ability to work’ needs to be conceptualised more broadly if it is to mean ‘ability to get a job’.