Employment
| Publication | Category | Topic |
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| Families Continue to Rely on Wives As Breadwinners Post-Recession This brief presents an analysis of the increased role employed wives played in family economic stability prior to, during, and after the Great Recession, focusing on changes in the contribution of employed wives’ earnings to family earnings by state, region,… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Family, Income |
| Proposed EITC Expansion Would Increase Eligibility and Dollars for Rural and Urban “Childless” Workers This brief uses data from the 2013 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey to examine how President Obama’s proposed expanded eligibility and higher credit values might affect tax filers in both rural and urban America.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Employment, Rural, Safety Net, Tax, Urban |
| The Long-Term Unemployed in the Wake of the Great Recession Using the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey, this brief outlines the demographic and economic characteristics of the long-term unemployed and compares them with their short-term unemployed counterparts. It also describes changes… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Health Insurance, Rural, Unemployment, Urban |
| Wanting More but Working Less: Involuntary Part-Time Employment and Economic Vulnerability Using data from the Current Population Survey, a national survey of U.S. households, this brief outlines a strong association between involuntary part-time employment and economic vulnerability. Author Rebecca Glauber reports that the involuntary part-time employment… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Poverty |
| Who Would Be Affected By a New Minimum Wage Policy? This brief describes the population who would be directly affected by the President’s proposal to increase the minimum wage to $9.00 per hour: workers earning between $7.25 and $9.00 per hour.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment |
| Middle-Skill Jobs Remain More Common Among Rural Workers This issue brief uses data from the Current Population Survey collected from 2003 to 2012 to assess trends in employment in middle-skill jobs and the Great Recession’s impact on middle-skill workers, with particular attention paid to differences between those in… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Rural, Urban |
| Urban-Rural Differences in Concern about the Environment and Jobs in the Puget Sound Region Using data from a phone survey of 1,980 Puget Sound residents conducted in 2012, this fact sheet examines the severity of different environmental problems and compares the strength of concern about the lack of jobs and beliefs about the environment. Too few jobs and… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Community, Employment, Environment, Public Opinion |
| Recessions Accelerate Trend of Wives as Breadwinners This brief, Recessions Accelerate Trend of Wives as Breadwinners, investigates the increased role employed wives played in family economic stability prior to, during, and in the two years after the Great Recession, and makes comparisons to the 1990-1991 and 2001… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Family, Gender, Income |
| Underemployment in Urban and Rural America, 2005-2012 Author Justin Young reports that underemployment (or involuntary part-time work) rates doubled during the second year of the recession, reaching roughly 6.5 percent in 2009. This increase was equally steep in both rural and urban places. By March of 2012,… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Income, Rural, Urban |
| Lack of Protections for Home Care Workers: Overtime Pay and Minimum Wage This brief examines overtime hours and hourly wages among home care workers (home health aides and personal care aides) and compares them with hospital and nursing home aides. These aides engage in similar work for their clients, even though they work in different… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Health Insurance, Safety Net, Wages |
