Single mother families and employment, race, and poverty in changing economic times.
Single mother families and employment, race, and poverty in changing economic times.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.08.008
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发表时间：
2017-02
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Frech A
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作者：
Damaske S;Bratter JL;Frech A
本文使用2001年、2005年和2010年的美国社区调查数据，评估了不同经济时期单身女性户主家庭的就业、种族和贫困之间的关系。虽然2001年至2010年期间单身母亲家庭的贫困率急剧上升，但令人惊讶的是，许多种族的贫困差距在十年结束时缩小了。这是由于白人的贫困率上升幅度更大，尽管2010年白人与黑人、白人与西班牙裔、白人与美洲印第安人之间的差距仍然很大。与2001年相比，2010年所有就业状况的贫困风险都更高，兼职就业者、失业者和非劳动力的风险增加最快。鉴于2000年至2010年期间兼职就业和失业人数同时增加，调查结果描绘了过去十年对单身母亲家庭福祉的不利影响。
Using American Community Survey data from 2001, 2005, and 2010, this paper assesses the relationships between employment, race, and poverty for households headed by single women across different economic periods. While poverty rates rose dramatically among single-mother families between 2001 and 2010, surprisingly many racial disparities in poverty narrowed by the end of the decade. This was due to a greater increase in poverty among whites, although gaps between whites and Blacks, whites and Hispanics, and whites and American Indians remained quite large in 2010. All employment statuses were at higher risk of poverty in 2010 than 2001 and the risk increased most sharply for those employed part-time, the unemployed, and those not in the labor force. Given the concurrent increase in part-time employment and unemployment between 2000 and 2010, findings paint a bleak picture of the toll the last decade has had on the well being of single-mother families.