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Family labor issues have become increasingly important in shaping national policy related to welfare reform and reemployment assistance. The growth in female labor force participation and the rise in female-headed households has drawn attention to the employment barriers for women, particularly those barriers associated with childrearing responsibilities.


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Working papers

  • Nonstandard Work and Child Care Choices of Married Mothers, Jean Kimmel and Lisa M. Powell (WP01-74), 2001.
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  • Black-White Segregation, Discrimination, and Home Ownership, Kelly DeRango (WP01-71), 2001.
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  • The Effect of Child Care Costs on the Labor Force Participation and Welfare Recipiency of Single Mothers: Implications for Welfare Reform, Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel (WP01-69), 2001.
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  • Marital Status and Full-time/Part-time Work Status in Child Care Choices: Changing the Rules of the Game, Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel (WP99-58), 1999.
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  • Reducing the Welfare Dependence of Single-Mother Families: Health-Related Employment Barriers and Policy Responses, Jean Kimmel (WP96-43), 1996.
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  • Gender Differences in Faculty Turnover, Byron W. Brown and Stephen A. Woodbury (WP95-34), 1995.
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  • Rural Wages and Returns to Education: Differences Between Whites, Blacks, and American Indians,Jean Kimmel (WP94-27), 1994.
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  • The Effects of Local Labor Demand on Individual Labor Market Outcomes for Different Demographic Groups and the Poor, Timothy J. Bartik (WP93-023), 1993.
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    NOTE: A revised version of this paper was published as "The Distributional Effects of Local Labor Demand and Industrial Mix: Estimates Using Panel Data" in Journal of Urban Economics 40(2): pp. 150-178, 1996.
  • Child Care and the Employment Behavior of Single and Married Mothers, Jean Kimmel (WP93-14), 1993.
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Books from Upjohn Press

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Grants in progress

  • Lauren Rich, University of Chicago, Self-Employment Among Low-Income Mothers
  • Christopher Flinn, New York University, The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes: Theory and Evidence
  • Rachel Connelly, Bowdoini College, and Jean Kimmel, Western Michigan University, The Role of Caregiving in Mothers' Time Use: Recent Evidence from the New American Time Use Survey
  • Rucker Johnson, University of California-Berkeley, Work After Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children: Evidence from the Michigan Women's Employment Survey
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