Childhood homelessness and adult employment : the role of education, incarceration, and welfare receipt / Deborah A. Cobb-Clark and Anna Zhu
- Bib ID:
- 6980008
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- Author:
- Cobb-Clark, Deborah A, author
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- [Parkville], Victoria : Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, the University of Melbourne, September 2015
- 44 pages ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780734043900
- Series:
- Melbourne Institute working paper ; no. 18/15. 1328-4991
- Summary:
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This paper analyzes children's long-term consequences of experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of disadvantaged adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. We find that those experiencing homelessness for the first time as children are less likely to be employed than those who were never homeless as a child. For women, this relationship is largely explained by the lower educational attainment and higher welfare receipt (both in general and in the form of mental illness-related disability payments) of those experiencing childhood homelessness. Higher rates of high-school incompletion and incarceration explain some of the link between childhood homelessness and men's employment, however, childhood homelessness continues to have a substantial direct effect on male employment rates.
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- This paper uses data collected from the Journeys Home project, a longitudinal survey-based study managed by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Also available in an electronic version via the Internet. Address as of 4 March 2015 https://www.melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/working_paper_series/wp2015n18.pdf
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