The transition from welfare-to-work: How cars and human capital facilitate employment for welfare recipients

Sandoval, J. S. Onésimo; Cervero, Robert; Landis, John D.

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.07.008

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“…Yet even with access to reasonably high-quality transit service, most interviewees were willing to incur the high costs to use vehicles for some or all of their trips (either as a driver or passenger). This finding is not surprising, as automobiles have become indispensable for accessing opportunities such as jobs (Shen, 2001) and are strongly associated with higher employment rates (Baum, 2009;Gautier & Zenou, 2010;Gurley & Bruce, 2005;Ong, 2002;Sandoval, Cervero, & Landis, 2011).…”

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Getting Around When You’re Just Getting By: Transportation Survival Strategies of the Poor

Blumenberg¹,

Agrawal

2014

Journal of Poverty

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Researchers argue that transportation expenditures impose a heavy burden on low-income households, many of whom experience difficulty managing their travel costs. However, relatively little research explores how low-income households manage their mobility needs. To address this issue, this study uses qualitative data from interviews with 73 low-income people living in and around San Jose, California. The interviews reveal the resiliency of low-income families in creatively managing their transportation costs. However, the transportation survival strategies of the poor can come at a high price-fewer miles traveled and, therefore, reduced access to opportunities that may lift them out of poverty.

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Getting Around When You’re Just Getting By: Transportation Survival Strategies of the Poor

Blumenberg¹,

Agrawal

2014

Journal of Poverty

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“…The conditional welfare regulations reinforce their experience of exclusion by restricting their mobility, purchases, social relations and agency. In these respects, the stipulations are designed contrary to research that has suggested that regulations that facilitate mobility -for instance by allowing ownership of a car -increase welfare exit (Bansak et al, 2010;Onésimo Sandoval, Cervero, & Landis, 2011). The women in the present study referred to owning a car as a symbol of individual freedom and a decent life, as well as a material asset that would make everyday life easier.…”

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Unemployment and conditional welfare: Exclusion and belonging in immigrant women's discourse on being long‐term dependent on social assistance

Bergnéhr

2015

Int J Soc Welfare

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Long‐term unemployment with dependency on social assistance in Sweden has increased and is particularly high among foreign‐born persons. The present study explored immigrant recipients' experiences of being welfare reliant. Swedish‐Iraqi women's construction of exclusion and belonging in relation to policies and welfare regulations was scrutinised. The women referred to unemployment with frustration, expressing that it renders dependence on social welfare and enforces adherence to the stipulations of the social services. The individual's mobility and agency are restricted and concerted efforts to obtain employment are futile, which increase the sense of exclusion. However, the entitlement to social assistance also engenders feelings of belonging, of being connected to and cared for by the new country. More research is needed to examine the role that social assistance regulations play in forming feelings of belonging and exclusion. It appears essential that political initiatives be taken to reverse the trend of high unemployment among foreign‐born persons.

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“…A subset of these studies use longitudinal data of welfare recipients to examine the relative effects of automobile and transit access on employment and welfare outcomes (Blumenberg and Pierce 2014;Cervero, Sandoval, and Landis 2002;Gurley and Bruce 2005;Sandoval, Cervero, and Landis 2011). Each of these studies finds that public transit access is not a significant determinant of desired outcomes: exit from welfare and/or enhanced employment.…”

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The Drive to Work

Blumenberg

Pierce

2016

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Transportation enables low-income individuals to find and travel to employment. This article analyzes the relationship between access to automobiles and public transit and employment outcomes of low-income households. We use longitudinal survey data from participants in the Welfare to Work Voucher Program, which was conducted in five US metropolitan areas between 1999 and 2005. Multinomial logistic regression shows that baseline access to automobiles has a strong positive relationship to follow-up employment but public transit access and receipt of housing assistance do not. Our findings suggest that enhancing car access will notably improve employment outcomes among very-low-income adults, but other assistance will have, at best, marginal effects.

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The transition from welfare-to-work: How cars and human capital facilitate employment for welfare recipients

Cited by 37 publications

References 43 publications

Getting Around When You’re Just Getting By: Transportation Survival Strategies of the Poor

Getting Around When You’re Just Getting By: Transportation Survival Strategies of the Poor

Unemployment and conditional welfare: Exclusion and belonging in immigrant women's discourse on being long‐term dependent on social assistance

The Drive to Work

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