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Title: Work and Welfare: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
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Cho, Pill Jay |
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Work and Welfare: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981. DAI-A 42/12, p. 5268, June 1982 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Employment; Government Regulation; Welfare This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between work and welfare. A review of the literature indicates that there are two competing hypotheses. In general, sociologists argue that people are more likely to continue working even when it is not an economical necessity because of the "meaning of work." Economists, on the other hand, insist that, at the same level of income, people tend to choose leisure rather than work. We tested the null hypothesis of no effects of welfare on work against the alternative hypothesis of negative effects using data from the NLS, because it contains rich information on both work and welfare. Since AFDC is usually the focus of the work-welfare debate, the sample was chosen from the Mature Women subset of NLS whose marital status is similar to that of AFDC mothers, i.e., all women excluding those who are "married, spouse present." Because the feedback effects of work on welfare had to be taken into account, and because we wished to use multiple indicators of the theoretical concepts, we developed a model which manifests these two important points in addition to other features of causal relations involved. Thus, we used Joreskog's maximum likelihood method (LISREL) as well as ordinary least squares method (regression analysis) to test the hypotheses mentioned above. We found little significant effects of welfare on work, while work exerts significant impact on welfare. Thus, it seems more sensible to try to reduce the welfare burden by increasing work rather than to attempt to increase work by reducing welfare. |
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Cho, Pill Jay. Work and Welfare: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981. DAI-A 42/12, p. 5268, June 1982. |