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Title: Welfare, Work Experience, and Economic Self-Sufficiency
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Loeb, Susanna Corcoran, Mary E. |
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Welfare, Work Experience, and Economic Self-Sufficiency Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 20,1 (Winter 2001): 1-20. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1520-6688%28200124%2920:1%3C1::AID-PAM1001%3E3.0.CO;2-I/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Wage Growth; Wages; Wages, Women; Welfare; Work Experience Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The potential of former AFDC recipients to earn a living wage is central to the success of welfare-to-work programs. Previous studies have found that welfare recipients see little increase in their wages over time. Low wage growth could arise from either low returns to work experience or low levels of experience. This distinction is important for designing effective welfare policy. In the following paper, we estimate how wages grew with work experience between 1978 and 1992 for a national sample of women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We compare women who never received welfare with both short- and long-term recipients in order to see to what extent the rates of wage growth with work experience differ. We find that they differ very little. We use numerous specification checks to test the robustness of our results and find consistent evidence that the wages of AFDC recipients grew at a rate similar to those of nonrecipients once work experience is taken into account. Copyright: 2001 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. |
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Loeb, Susanna and Mary E. Corcoran. "Welfare, Work Experience, and Economic Self-Sufficiency." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 20,1 (Winter 2001): 1-20.
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