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married mothers with young children. We draw on the 1992/93 Survey of Income and Program Participation to estimate two related … jointly estimate the work status and child care choice decisions of mothers, we find that the standard versus nonstandard work … to improve the child care options for mothers with young children working in nonstandard jobs. …
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mothers. The data used in this paper are from the 1987 SIPP, the first SIPP panel to utilize an improved probing of child care … contribution is to provide a clear comparison between single mothers and married mothers. A third contribution of this paper is its … for married and single mothers, while increases in the price of care reduce the probability of labor force participation. …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine work-family conflict among low-income, unmarried mothers. I examine how social …-2002. Results show that social capital reduces unmarried mothers' reports of work-family conflict, especially for low-income women …. In addition, mothers who report high levels of work-family conflict are less likely to be employed; this pattern holds …
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competing interests of public and private coverage for single mothers affect these mothers' willingness to participate in the …
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Basing their analysis on the American Time Use Survey, Connelly and Kimmel delve into the time use of mothers of …
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Whitebook and Sakai examine how child care programs and their staff subsist in a field characterized by low pay, low status, and high turnover and what the impacts of these factors are on the quality of child care provided.
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Kimmel and Hoffman present a set of topical, non-technical papers authored by nationally known experts in this field. Using an economic perspective, they confront work/family issues including child care (potentially the biggest obstacle to parents successfully integrating work and family...
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The authors chronicle the trends in the growth in on-site child care programs and perform analyses that shed light on the value of employer-sponsored child care to employees.
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-maternal child care is often expensive or of poor quality, making it difficult for low income mothers, (especially those making the … Advisers (1997). Much of the previous literature either focused strictly on married mothers or simply controlled for marital … status with a dichotomous variable. We include both married and unmarried mothers in our analyses by stratifying our sample …
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