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Title: Will Wages Grow with Experience for Welfare Mothers?
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Corcoran, Mary E. Loeb, Susanna |
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Will Wages Grow with Experience for Welfare Mothers? Focus 20,2 (Spring 1999): 20-21. Also: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/focus.htm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin - Madison Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); GED/General Educational Diploma/General Equivalency Degree/General Educational Development; High School Diploma; Mothers; Part-Time Work; Skilled Workers; Wage Growth; Welfare; Work Experience Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. It appears that wages grow little for welfare recipients over time, especially for those whose skills and circumstances place them among the most disadvantaged. But welfare recipients work far fewer years than do nonrecipients, and it is not clear whether their low rates of wage growth with age are due to more meager work experience or to lower returns to that experience. Will more time working, as the new welfare regimes require, bring better jobs and higher wages? Research on work experience and women's wages consistently finds that wages grow with work experience, that prolonged periods of joblessness lower women's wages, and that wage growth is lower when work experience is part time. Welfare mothers not only have less work experience than other women, but often work part time. These factors in themselves could lead to lower wage growth over time even if returns to experience are the same for recipients and nonrecipients. |
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Corcoran, Mary E. and Susanna Loeb. "Will Wages Grow with Experience for Welfare Mothers?" Focus 20,2 (Spring 1999): 20-21.
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