TY - JOUR
T1 - Economic conditions of female-headed households in Taiwan in comparison with the United States and Sweden
AU - Ozawa, Martha N.
AU - Lee, Yongwoo
AU - Wang, Kate Yeong Tsyr
PY - 2011/2
Y1 - 2011/2
N2 - This study investigated the economic conditions of female-headed households in Taiwan and compared them with those in the United States and Sweden in 2000. At the descriptive level, we investigated the socioeconomic backgrounds of the households, the rate of poverty, distributive effects of public and private transfers, and Gini coefficients at each stage of income distribution. We then conducted logistic regression analyses of the poverty rate at the last stage of income distribution. The major finding was that within the context of a small welfare state, Taiwan had the lowest poverty rate before transfers and the second lowest poverty rate after transfers of the three countries we studied. Moreover, at the last stage of income distribution, only two independent variables (education and work status of the household head) affected the poverty rate. We conclude that Taiwan, as one of the developmental welfare regimes in Asia, had created a different way of enhancing the economic wellbeing of female-headed households in the past, compared with the other two countries.
AB - This study investigated the economic conditions of female-headed households in Taiwan and compared them with those in the United States and Sweden in 2000. At the descriptive level, we investigated the socioeconomic backgrounds of the households, the rate of poverty, distributive effects of public and private transfers, and Gini coefficients at each stage of income distribution. We then conducted logistic regression analyses of the poverty rate at the last stage of income distribution. The major finding was that within the context of a small welfare state, Taiwan had the lowest poverty rate before transfers and the second lowest poverty rate after transfers of the three countries we studied. Moreover, at the last stage of income distribution, only two independent variables (education and work status of the household head) affected the poverty rate. We conclude that Taiwan, as one of the developmental welfare regimes in Asia, had created a different way of enhancing the economic wellbeing of female-headed households in the past, compared with the other two countries.
KW - Female-headed households
KW - Income status
KW - Inter-country analysis
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U2 - 10.1080/17486831.2011.532954
DO - 10.1080/17486831.2011.532954
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79952526664
SN - 1748-6831
VL - 27
SP - 63
EP - 74
JO - Journal of Comparative Social Welfare
JF - Journal of Comparative Social Welfare
IS - 1
ER -