This paper investigates how the timing of homelessness - whether in childhood or first experienced at a later age - affects adult employment outcomes. It uses data from the Journeys Home Project, which follows about 1,700 disadvantaged Australians experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity over a three-year period. The study found that those experiencing homelessness for the first time as children are less likely to be employed than those who were never homeless as a child. For women, this relationship is largely explained by the lower educational attainment and higher welfare and pension receipt of those experiencing childhood homelessness. For men, higher rates of high-school incompletion and incarceration explain some of this link between childhood homelessness and unemployment.
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