Lone Mothers, Social Security and the Family in Hong Kong
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benefit
Benefit Claimants
benefits
Broken Work Record
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Centripetal Family
Child Care Support
childcare policy barriers
claimants
Earning Disregard Policy
Earnings Disregard
economic independence women
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families
feminist social policy
gender and labour market
Government Family Planning Policy
Labour Force Participation Rates
Labour Supply Behaviour
Lone Fathers
Lone Mother Families
Lone Mothers
Lone Parent Families
Maintenance Payments
parent
qualitative policy research
Received Maintenance Payment
Social Indicators Survey
Social Security Benefits
social security impact on lone parents
Social Security Office
Social Security Policy
Social Security System
Social Welfare Department
system
Utilitarianistic Familism
Vice Versa
welfare state analysis
Women's Economic Dependency
Women's Labour Participation Rates
Women’s Economic Dependency
Women’s Labour Participation Rates
Product details
- ISBN 9781840143201
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 20 Mar 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is the first study with feminist analysis on lone mothers’ economic dependency in Hong Kong. The implications of this study are considerable; it challenges both conventional thinking about families and the political and academic debates about social policy. This book sets out to examine the relationship between social security benefits and lone mothers’ labour supply in Hong Kong. Two particular aspects of the labour supply behaviour of lone mothers are explored: firstly, the possible effect of social security on lone mothers’ employment: and secondly, the knowledge and perception of social security benefits in the decision making processes of lone mothers in relation to taking up paid work. Evidence from this study suggests that there are three structural barriers which hinder lone mothers from taking up paid employment outside their family; inadequate support for child care, the low level of Earnings Disregard Policy which discourages lone mothers living on benefit from being self-reliant and thirdly, the low wages that lone mothers earn in the labour market.
Lai Ching Leung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
