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Title: The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program on Welfare Recipients' Employment, Earnings, and Welfare Use
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Lee, Hongjik |
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The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program on Welfare Recipients' Employment, Earnings, and Welfare Use Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 2003. DAI-A 63/11, p. 4093, May 2003. Also: https://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu/wfrn-repo/facet/all_author_field?filters=all_author_field%3A%22Hongjik%20Lee%22 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Human Capital; Labor Economics; Labor Force Participation; Socioeconomic Factors; Welfare; Work Reentry Under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, it is important to gauge whether welfare-to-work programs move recipients from welfare to work in short period of time. This study analyzes the effects of welfare-to work programs, using data of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. This study explores which of the three welfare-to-work program approaches--human capital development, labor force attachment, and the combined approach--is most successful in helping welfare recipients get a job, increase their earnings, leave welfare, and reduce the amount of welfare benefits within a one-year follow-up period. This study also examines which socioeconomic subgroups had greater success with employment, earnings, and welfare use. By comparing the impacts of the three welfare-to-work approaches with these subgroups, this study answers the question: Which welfare-to-work program approach is more effective and for whom? All three welfare-to-work program approaches enabled participants to leave welfare, to reduce the amount of welfare benefits, to gain employment, and to increase their earnings in a one-year follow-up period. However, the labor force attachment approach did not produce statistically significant increases in the one-year follow-up, after controlling for other socioeconomic variables. The combined approach produced the largest gains in leaving welfare, reductions in the amount of welfare benefits, employment, and earnings. The labor force attachment approach produced larger gains in welfare leave and employment than did human capital development approach, which produced larger gains in reducing the amount of welfare and increasing earnings in the one-year follow up period. In terms of a subgroup analysis, the impacts of the three program approaches varied by socioeconomic groups, even though the combined approach was the strongest predictor in leaving welfare, reducing the amount of welfare benefits, securing employment, and increasing earnings in most subgroups. This study contributes to the position that policymakers and planners of welfare-to-work programs should allocate funds to formulate appropriate strategies. Also, the finding of subgroup analysis may help program managers understand the importance of in-depth assessment of their socioeconomic characteristics. |
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Lee, Hongjik. The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program on Welfare Recipients' Employment, Earnings, and Welfare Use. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 2003. DAI-A 63/11, p. 4093, May 2003.. |