abstract: 'This paper analyzes the relationships of schooling, the skill content of

  work experience, and different types of employment patterns with

  less-skilled women job quality outcomes. Survey data from employers and

  longitudinal data from former and current welfare recipients are used

  for the period 1997 to early 2002. The analysis of job quality is

  broadened beyond employment rates and wages measured at a point in time

  by including non-wage attributes of compensation and aspects of jobs

  that affect future earnings potential. This study shows the extent to

  which lack of employment stability, job skills, and occupation-specific

  experience impedes welfare recipients'' abilities to obtain a ``good

  job{''''} or to transition into one from a ``bad job. `` The business

  cycle downturn has significantly negatively affected the job quality and

  job transition patterns of former and current recipients. (C) 2003 by

  the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.'
affiliation: Univ Michigan, Sch Publ Policy, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA.
author: Johnson, RC and Corcoran, ME
author_list:
- family: Johnson
  given: RC
- family: Corcoran
  given: ME
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1002/pam.10158
files: []
issn: 0276-8739
journal: JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
keywords-plus: 'COGNITIVE SKILLS; WAGE STRUCTURE; YOUNG MEN; MOBILITY; WOMEN;

  INEQUALITY; TURNOVER; RETURNS; GENDER; WORK'
language: English
month: FAL
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '45'
pages: 615-639
papis_id: 7c47bf570b0f1bb5389494a5cd07cd20
ref: Johnson2003roadeconomic
times-cited: '75'
title: 'The road to economic self-sufficiency: Job quality and job transition patterns
  after welfare reform'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000185421300007
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '20'
volume: '22'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; Public Administration
year: '2003'