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Michael Seeborg

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1993

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The Impact Of Local Labor Markets On Black And White Family Structure, Michael Seeborg, Kristin Jaeger Dec 1992

The Impact Of Local Labor Markets On Black And White Family Structure, Michael Seeborg, Kristin Jaeger

Michael Seeborg

This study employs 1980 census data to determine how economic characteristics affect the incidence of female headed families in metropolitan areas. The study also attempts to determine if black family structure responds differently than white family structure to changes in the variables studied. It is found that changes in employment of men and women may have profound effects on family structure. Changes in the level of welfare support are also found to affect family structure. Black family structure is found to behave somewhat differently than white, thus lending support to Wilson's theory of the underclass.

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Income And Poverty Across Smsas: A Two-Stage Analysis, Michael C. Seeborg, Robert M. Leekley Dec 1992

Income And Poverty Across Smsas: A Two-Stage Analysis, Michael C. Seeborg, Robert M. Leekley

Michael Seeborg

Among the many explanations of income and poverty levels, especially among black families, two have garnered much of the recent public and academic attention: welfare disincentives and urban deindustrialization. Although on the surface, these explanations appear quite dissimilar, they do have a common thread.
 
The ''welfare-disincentive'' explanation argues that while public assistance raises family income and reduces poverty directly, it has the opposite effects indirectly. According to this argument, welfare leads recipients to reduce their work, schooling and traditional family formation [Murray, 1984] all of whose reductions significantly affect family income and poverty adversely. Blacks are hurt more than …

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