Given that approximately 20% of poor children in two-parent families lived with a father who was not working for most of the year in 2013, increasing coverage of unemployment and/or social assistance benefits could improve the standard of living of many poor children. Relative poverty is 16% among households headed by a non-regular worker compared to only 5% in those headed by a regular worker (OECD, 2016): reducing the barriers between regular and non-regular employment is key to improving the living standards of one-earner households. For example, one option may be to further limit opening hours.