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Author: O'Kane, Patrick
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1. Dolinsky, Arthur Lewis
Caputo, Richard K.
O'Kane, Patrick
Competing Effects of Culture and Situation on Welfare Receipt
Social Service Review 63,3 (September 1989): 359-371.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30012031
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Education; Mothers and Daughters; Welfare; Work Experience

Contributing to the long-standing debate about the relative influence of cultural and situational factors on welfare receipt, examined here are the competing effects of these factors. Analysis of microdata from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience for a subset of 549 matched mother-daughter pairs (covering the years 1966-1971 for the mothers and 1976-1979 for the daughters) indicates that both culture and situation influenced welfare receipt. Education and work experience were about three times as important as attitudes in explaining the variance in the number of years that welfare was received. 6 Tables, 2 Appendixes. (Copyright 1990, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
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Dolinsky, Arthur Lewis, Richard K. Caputo and Patrick O'Kane. "Competing Effects of Culture and Situation on Welfare Receipt." Social Service Review 63,3 (September 1989): 359-371.