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Maintaining Work: The Influence of Child Care Subsidies on Child Care-Related Work

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  • Nicole D. Forry

    (Child Trends)

  • Sandra L. Hofferth

    (University of Maryland)

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With the passage of welfare reform, parents? ability to not only obtain, but maintain work has become imperative. The role of child care subsidies in supporting parents? job tenure has received little attention in the literature. This article examines the relationship between receiving a child care subsidy and the likelihood of experiencing a child care-related work disruption using two samples and both cross-sectional and longitudinal regression models. Child care-related work disruptions are found to be less likely among subsidy recipients across samples and methods. Program implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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  • Nicole D. Forry & Sandra L. Hofferth, 2009. "Maintaining Work: The Influence of Child Care Subsidies on Child Care-Related Work," Working Papers 1175, Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing..
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    Keywords

    child care; subsidy; employment; cost; job tenure;
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    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • O51 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - U.S.; Canada
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • D19 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Other

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