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Author: Loeb, Susanna
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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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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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Bibliography Citation
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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