Welfare Participation in a Full Employment Economy
The Impact of Neighborhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2484765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Osterman (0000-0002-1210-7820, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 475-491 |
| Publication date | 1991-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/800566 |
| OpenAlex | W1969300919 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper employs original survey data on female single parents in Boston to examine the determinants of welfare participation. Particular attention is paid to the hypothesis—growing out of the literature on the urban underclass—that there are important neighborhood effects. The results provide support for the existence of neighborhood effects. These effects remain after controls for the personal characteristics of the respondents and for the possible endogenaity of neighborhood choice. The study also provides support for an explanation in which neighborhood effects are a result of the level of resources, particularly resources related to the percent of family heads who work. There is less support for the influence of stigma attached to welfare
Demographic economics · Economics · Labour economics · Market economy · Sociology · Stigma (botany) · Survey data collection · Survey of Income and Program Participation · Underclass · Welfare · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2022 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |