Abstract
The "New Economy" features 24/7 employment, varied work schedules, job insecurity, and lower benefits and wages, which lead to disparities in experiences of security and sufficiency. This study investigates sufficiency concerns in the New Economy; who is having trouble making ends meet? Sufficiency concerns are subjective perceptions that work is insufficient to meet basic needs and that family and work cannot be coordinated in a stable way. This study uses the 2006 National Survey of Religion and Family Life (N = 1,621) to analyze Americans' experiences in the New Economy and how these experiences are related to work-family conflict. Sufficiency concerns were experienced by a quarter to a third of our respondents and were shaped by gender and structural inequality, especially race and education. Moreover, sufficiency concerns strongly predict work-family conflict, even when other controls are included. This research furthers our understanding of work-family conflict and the winners and losers in the New Economy.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 999-1026 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | Journal of Family Issues |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Data are from the National Survey of Religion and Family Life (Penny Edgell, Christopher Ellison, W. Bradford Wilcox, co-Principal Investigators), funded by the Lily Endowment (Grant No. 2002 2301-000).
Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- family
- gender
- work
- work-family conflict
