LONE MOTHERS - A REVIEW

This paper briefly reviews recent empirical studies on the economic be haviour of lone mothers concentrating on the duration of lone motherho od, on labour supply, and on the determinants of their welfare partici pation. We start out by sketching some stylised facts about lone-mothe r-families in various countries. With this background we give a guided tour through the empirical literature followed by a summary of the po licy implications of the results presented.