Precarious Parental Employment Conditions and Family Poverty Experiences in the First Six Years of a Child's Life.

Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Birth Cohort in the United States (N ≈ 10,700), this study examines the relationship between precarious parental work characteristics and families' poverty status during the early childhood years. We focus on four aspects of parental work—occupational pre...

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Publicado en:Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 1106 - 1121
Autores principales: Han, Wen-Jui, Zhang, Liwei
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2022
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          Han, Wen-Jui
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        Job descriptions
        Income
        Employees' workload
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        Early childhood
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        Nonstandard work schedules
        Parental work
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      ab: Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Birth Cohort in the United States (N ≈ 10,700), this study examines the relationship between precarious parental work characteristics and families' poverty status during the early childhood years. We focus on four aspects of parental work—occupational prestige, hourly wages, weekly work hours, and nonstandard work schedules—and three dimensions of familial poverty: poverty depth, volatility in family income, and poverty duration. The longitudinal latent class analysis identified five distinct maternal work profiles and three distinct paternal work profiles. Regression results then suggest that children in families whose mothers and fathers held jobs with precarious work characteristics had significantly higher probabilities of experiencing (1) near-poor conditions or falling into poverty, if not deep poverty; (2) volatility in family income; and (3) longer duration of poverty. Results in this study shed new light on the sensitivity of families' economic status to the precarious work conditions that have been on the rise in a society increasingly characterized by income inequality. Highlights: Almost half of the American families with young children were at risk of falling into poverty during the most crucial period of their child's life, before entering kindergarten. Longitudinal latent class analysis using four indicators of parental work was used to identify latent groups of precarious parental work characteristics. Precarious parental work increased the probability of families experiencing poverty.
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