Effects of Low-Wage Employment on Family Well-Being By Chris Pull Abstract Assumptions about the processes that link a mother's employment to the development of her child must underlie expectations about how children may fare when their mothers move from welfare dependence into employment. This article explores the idea, men- tioned in the research overview by Zaslow and Emig in this journal issue, that the working conditions such as wages, work hours, and task complexity that …showed first 75 words of 3317 total…

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