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Author: Heymann, S. Jody
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Earle, Alison Heymann, S. Jody |
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What Causes Job Loss among Former Welfare Recipients: The Role of Family Health Problems Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 57,1 (Winter 2002): 5-10 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Medical Women's Association Keyword(s): Child Health; Disability; Fathers, Absence; Health Factors; Household Composition; Job Patterns; Maternal Employment; Mothers, Health; Mothers, Income; Parents, Single; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Objective: to test whether women's or children's health status influences the likelihood that low-income single mothers experience job loss. Methods: Using a nationally representative probability sample from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimated whether having a health limitation or having a child with a health limitation was associated with job loss for a sample of 783 women who had previously been on welfare. Results: Both having a health limitation (odds ratio [OR]=1.53; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.19-1.97) and having a child with a health limitation (OR=1.36; 95% CI, 1.18-1.56) were associated with significantly increased risk of job loss among women previously on welfare. The effects remained significant after adjustment for age, education, marital status, race, age and number of children, and economic conditions. Conclusions: Dramatic changes in welfare policy in the United States have made many single mothers living in poverty dependent on work as their sole source of income. Although studies have shown that families on welfare are more likely to have health limitations, little is known about how family health affects the ability of poor single mothers to remain employed. These results demonstrate that women with health limitations and mothers of children with health limitations are at particularly high risk of losing their jobs. Public and private policies that can help reduce job loss as a consequence of family health problems are discussed. |
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Earle, Alison and S. Jody Heymann. "What Causes Job Loss among Former Welfare Recipients: The Role of Family Health Problems." Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 57,1 (Winter 2002): 5-10.
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Earle, Alison Heymann, S. Jody |
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Work, Family, and Social Class In: How Healthy Are We? A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife. OG. Brim, C.D. Ryff, and R.C. Kessler, eds. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2004: pp. 485-513. Also: http://midus.wisc.edu/howhealthyarewe/Chapter17.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Asthma; Child Care; Child Health; Maternal Employment; Welfare Of particular interest from a policy perspective is Chapter 17, which centers on work, family, and social class. The authors find that the lower the income level, the more likely it is that work is juxtaposed with poor social support, a chronically ill child, or other caretaking responsibility. Low-income jobs do not provide flexibility in sick leave or work hours, resulting in a disproportionate number of children who suffer from unmet health and developmental needs -- and ultimately impacting our nation's health. |
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Earle, Alison and S. Jody Heymann. "Work, Family, and Social Class" In: How Healthy Are We? A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife. OG. Brim, C.D. Ryff, and R.C. Kessler, eds. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2004: pp. 485-513.
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The Widening Gap: A New Book on the Struggle to Balance Work and Caregiving IWPR Publication #C349, Research-in-Brief, Institute for Women's Policy Research, October 2001. Also: http://www.iwpr.org/publications/pubs/the-widening-gap-a-new-book-on-the-struggle-to-balance-work-and-caregiving/at_download/file Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for Women's Policy Research Keyword(s): Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); School Completion; Shift Workers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This Research-in-Brief is based on selected findings from a new book by Jody Heymann, Director of Policy at the Harvard Center for Society and Health. Published by Basic Books in 2000, The Widening Gap: Why America’s Working Families are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done About It reveals the failure of our nation’s employer-based support system to help families meet their caregiving responsibilities. In her new book, The Widening Gap: Why American Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done About It, (Basic Books) Heymann, professor of Health and Social Behavior at HSPH, analyzed survey data to describe the "national caregiving burden" and has exposed the growing gap between demands on parents and resources provided by government and employers. Asking employees to keep a diary of interruptions in the work week to meet family needs, Heymann found an extraordinary commitment by working parents. In the interview week, 30 percent of respondents had to cut back at least one day to meet the needs of family members, 12 percent cut back on two days and five percent three or more days. Working women were found to carry a disproportionately large load of caregiving in families while receiving less help at home and being hemmed in by far less sick leave time or work flexibility than men. |
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Heymann, S. Jody. "The Widening Gap: A New Book on the Struggle to Balance Work and Caregiving." IWPR Publication #C349, Research-in-Brief, Institute for Women's Policy Research, October 2001. |
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The Widening Gap: Why American Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done About It New York, NY: Basic Books, The Perseus Books Group, 2000 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Perseus Books Group Keyword(s): Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); School Completion; Shift Workers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Examines the growing gap between the child and elder care needs of families and the resources that they have to meet these responsibilities. Principal data sources include the Urban Working Families Study, the Daily Diaries Study, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and the Survey of Midlife in the United States. Together, the studies utilize interviews with more than 7,500 caregivers to explore how Americans of all ages are working while addressing the health, educational, and urgent-care needs of children, older parents, and other adults. Results focus on the unpredictable lives of working adults, the impact of outdated working conditions and inadequate social supports on children, the impact on extended families, the magnification of economic inequalities, and gender inequalities in child and elder care. Case studies are used to illustrate the findings. References are included. Appendixes provide additional information on the data sources and results. (MM) (AgeLine Database, copyright 2003 AARP, all rights reserved) |
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Heymann, S. Jody. The Widening Gap: Why American Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done About It. New York, NY: Basic Books, The Perseus Books Group, 2000. |
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Heymann, S. Jody Boynton-Jarrett, Renée Carter, Patricia Bond, James T. Galinsky, Ellen |
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Work-Family Issues and Low-Income Families: Making Work Pay in the Low-Income Labor Market Ford Foundation Report, An Economy That Works, Douglas Gould & Co., Inc, Summer 2002. Also: http://www.economythatworks.com/reports/ford_analysisfinal.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Ford Foundation Keyword(s): Benefits; Child Care; Child Health; Family Income; Income; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Mid-Life in the United States (MIDUS); National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW); Transition, Welfare to Work; Wage Levels; Wages, Women Permission to reprint the abstract has been denied by the publisher. |
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Heymann, S. Jody, Renée Boynton-Jarrett, Patricia Carter, James T. Bond and Ellen Galinsky. "Work-Family Issues and Low-Income Families: Making Work Pay in the Low-Income Labor Market." Ford Foundation Report, An Economy That Works, Douglas Gould & Co., Inc, Summer 2002. |
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Heymann, S. Jody Earle, Alison |
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Low-Income Parents: How Do Working Conditions Affect Their Opportunity to Help School-Age Children at Risk? American Educational Research Journal 37,4 (Winter 2000): 833-848. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1163494 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Educational Research Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Benefits; Children, Academic Development; Children, Behavioral Development; Children, School-Age; Income; Income Level; Maternal Employment; Parent-School involvement; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Numerous studies have documented the importance of parental involvement to children's success at school. Much of the discussion about what influences the outcomes of poor children has assumed that low-income parents have the same opportunity to help their children's education. Yet, parents' availability to be involved with their children's education is often determined by job benefits and working conditions. The goal of this article is to examine empirically whether low-income working parents face significantly different nonfinancial barriers to parental involvement than those faced by higher income working parents. In particular, we examine the working conditions faced by parents who have at least one child who is in need of help because of educational or behavioral problems. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth--Mother and Child Surveys (NLSY) on 1,878 families where mothers worked more than 20 hr per week were analyzed. Copyright 2000 by the American Educational Research Association. |
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Heymann, S. Jody and Alison Earle. "Low-Income Parents: How Do Working Conditions Affect Their Opportunity to Help School-Age Children at Risk?" American Educational Research Journal 37,4 (Winter 2000): 833-848.
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Heymann, S. Jody Earle, Alison |
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The Impact of Parental Working Conditions on School-Age Children: The Case of Evening Work Community, Work & Family 4,3 (December 2001): 305-325. Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01405110120089369 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Carfax Publishing Company ==> Taylor & Francis Keyword(s): Child Development; Child Health; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Poverty; Work Hours/Schedule; Working Conditions Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Data collected in the US in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth was used to examine the effect of parental evening work on the home environment for 1,133 school children (aged 5-10 yrs). The Home Observation Measurement of the Environment (HOME) score was used to predict the child's school, developmental, and health outcomes. Results show that at least one parent working in the evening had a significantly negative effect on the home environment both for families living in poverty and those who were not living in poverty. The effect size, an 11% decrease in HOME scores when mothers worked evenings and an 8% decrease in HOME scores when fathers worked evenings, was the same order of magnitude as living in poverty. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved): |
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Heymann, S. Jody and Alison Earle. "The Impact of Parental Working Conditions on School-Age Children: The Case of Evening Work." Community, Work & Family 4,3 (December 2001): 305-325.
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Heymann, S. Jody Earle, Alison |
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The Impact of Welfare Reform on Parents' Ability to Care for Their Children's Health American Journal of Public Health 89,4 (April 1999): 502-505. Also: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/89/4/502 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Public Health Association Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Benefits; Child Health; Welfare; Work Reentry; Working Conditions Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Objectives. Most of the national policy debate regarding welfare assumed that if middle-income mothers could balance work while caring for their children's health and development, mothers leaving welfare for work should be able to do so as well. Yet, previous research has not examined the conditions faced by mothers leaving welfare for work. Methods. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this study examined the availability of benefits that working parents commonly use to meet the health and developmental needs of their children: paid sick leave, vacation leave, and flexible hours. Results. In comparison with mothers who had never received welfare, mothers who had been on Aid to Families with Dependent Children were more likely to be caring for at least 1 child with a chronic condition (37% vs 21%, respectively). Yet, they were more likely to lack sick leave for the entire time they worked (36% vs 20%) and less likely to receive other paid leave or flexibility. Conclusions. If current welfare recipients face similar conditions when they return to work, many will face working conditions that make it difficult or impossible to succeed in the labor force at the same time as meeting their children's health and developmental needs. |
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Heymann, S. Jody and Alison Earle. "The Impact of Welfare Reform on Parents' Ability to Care for Their Children's Health." American Journal of Public Health 89,4 (April 1999): 502-505.
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Heymann, S. Jody Earle, Alison |
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The Work-Family Balance: What Hurdles Are Parents Leaving Welfare Likely to Confront? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 17,2 (Spring 1998): 313-321. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291520-6688%28199821%2917:2%3C313::AID-PAM11%3E3.0.CO;2-J/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Children; Maternal Employment; Welfare; Working Conditions Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study empirically examines the question: How do the working conditions faced by parents leaving welfare who seek to balance working and caring for their children compare to conditions faced by parents who have not received AFDC? Similarities and differences in working conditions may play a critical role in determining whether parents are able to leave welfare for work successfully and what impact the need to work will have on their children. |
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Heymann, S. Jody and Alison Earle. "The Work-Family Balance: What Hurdles Are Parents Leaving Welfare Likely to Confront?" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 17,2 (Spring 1998): 313-321.
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Heymann, S. Jody Earle, Alison Egleston, Brian |
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Parental Availability for the Care of Sick Children Pediatrics 98,2 (August 1996): 226-230. Also: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/2/226 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics Keyword(s): Bias Decomposition; Child Care; Child Health; Health Care; Maternal Employment; Parents, Behavior; Poverty Many parents do not have enough available paid sick time to care for their sick children during both routine and long-term illnesses. Researchers used the results of two national surveys to examine the number of family illness days, amount of paid sick time, and risk factors for inadequate paid sick time. One in three families experienced an illness in the family two weeks or more during the year. Twenty-eight percent of working mothers have no paid sick time. Mothers who live in poverty, nonwhite mothers, or those who have children with long-term illnesses are more likely to have no paid sick leave. Copyright 1996 American Academy of Pediatrics |
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Heymann, S. Jody, Alison Earle and Brian Egleston. "Parental Availability for the Care of Sick Children." Pediatrics 98,2 (August 1996): 226-230.
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Heymann, S. Jody Penrose, Kate Earle, Alison |
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Meeting Children's Needs: How Does the United States Measure Up? Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 52,2 (April 2006): 189-215. Also: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/merrill-palmer_quarterly/v052/52.2heymann.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Wayne State University Press Keyword(s): Children, Health Care; Education; Income Level; Maternal Employment; Parenthood; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The majority of parents in the United States today must balance work and caregiving responsibilities. Workplace policies and community supports markedly influence the ability of parents to care for their children's health and education while obtaining, retaining, and advancing in their jobs. The goal of this article is to analyze the dilemmas faced by working parents in general and by low-income families in particular, to present new data on how public policies in the United States compare to policies in over 150 other countries in addressing these dilemmas, and to suggest what more can be done to meet the needs of all working parents and their children across social class and residence. |
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Heymann, S. Jody, Kate Penrose and Alison Earle. "Meeting Children's Needs: How Does the United States Measure Up?" Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 52,2 (April 2006): 189-215.
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