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Secondary Workers' Earnings and Their Impact on Family Income Adequacy 1
Author(s) -
Metzen Edward J.,
Helmick Sandra A.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x7500300403
Subject(s) - earnings , index (typography) , demographic economics , family income , sample (material) , economics , business , labour economics , accounting , economic growth , chemistry , chromatography , world wide web , computer science
The purposes of this study were to investigate the contributions to family income of secondary workers in eight diverse samples and to develop a measure for assessing the impact of such earnings on the family's income adequacy. This measure, the income adequacy improvement index, considers the contributions from secondary workers in relation to adequacy of the family's income from other sources. The impact of supplemental earnings was determined to be greatest in the sample of California migrant families, both because they received substantial contributions from secondary workers and because the level of income from other sources was inadequate. For the same reasons, secondary workers in black families attained relatively high values for the income adequacy improvement index.