WELFARE REFORM AND ACCESS TO FAMILY-SUPPORTIVE BENEFITS IN THE WORKPLACE

Welfare reform has focused on the deficits of poor mothers, while ignoring inadequacies in the jobs and workplaces they will enter. This study of 2,375 pregnant women in the labor force examines the impact of job and workplace characteristics on access to workplace benefits that are important to fam...

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Published in:American journal of orthopsychiatry 1996-10, Vol.66 (4), p.538-547
Main Authors: Piotrkowski, Chaya S, Kessler-Sklar, Susan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access
Adult
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Benefits
Educational Status
Employability
Employee Benefits
Employment
Family Policy
Family Work Relationship
Female
Government Policy Making
Human
Humans
Job Characteristics
Legislation as Topic
Low Income Groups
Personnel Policy
Poverty
Pregnancy
Pregnant women
Psychiatry
Retrospective Studies
Single Mothers
Social Policy
Social reform
Social research
Social Support
Social Welfare - legislation & jurisprudence
U.S.A
United States of America
Unwed Mothers
USA
Welfare
Welfare Policy
Welfare Recipients
Welfare Reform
Welfare Services (Government)
Women
Work environment
Work place
Working Mothers
Working Women
Workplace
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Summary:Welfare reform has focused on the deficits of poor mothers, while ignoring inadequacies in the jobs and workplaces they will enter. This study of 2,375 pregnant women in the labor force examines the impact of job and workplace characteristics on access to workplace benefits that are important to families, while controlling statistically for women's education, marital status, and ethnicity.
ISSN:0002-9432
1939-0025
DOI:10.1037/h0080203