Search Results - subject:"PRWORA"

Are there returns to experience at low-skill jobs? Evidence from single mothers in the United States over the 1990s

Looney, Adam; Manoli, Dayanand S. - 2016

Policy changes in the United States in the 1990s resulted in sizable increases in employment rates of single mothers. We show that this increase led to a large and abrupt increase in work experience for single mothers with young children. We then examine the economic return to this increase in...

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Are there returns to experience at low-skill jobs? : evidence from single mothers in the United States over the 1990s

Looney, Adam; Manoli, Dayanand S. - 2016

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New Reform Strategies and Welfare participation in Canada:

Berg, Nathan; Gabel, Todd - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2014

This paper measures the extent to which declines in Canadian welfare participation were associated with novel and aggressive welfare reforms. Referred to as new reform strategies, these welfare policy variables are: work requirements, diversion, earning exemptions, and time limits. Controlling...

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Effects of New Welfare Reform Strategies on Welfare Participation: Microdata Estimates from Canada

Berg, Nathan; Gabel, Todd - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2013

This paper introduces newly coded information describing province- and year-specific variation in work requirements, diversion, earning exemptions, and time limits. This new information reveals a large decline in the chance of welfare participation of at least 1.1 percentage points (9.2%...

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New Reform Strategies and Welfare Participation in Canada

Berg, Nathan; Gabel, Todd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Heterogeneous welfare reform policies and timing of those policies among Canadian provinces reveal new information about the roles of different policy tools in accounting for declines in welfare participation. Work requirements, diversion, earnings exemptions, and time limits—referred to as...

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RE-ENGINEERING THE WELFARE SYSTEM - A STUDY OF ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES TO THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM: FINAL REPORT

Bell, Loren; Pachikara, Susan; Williams, Susan Schreiber; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2002

result of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). In addition, 35 States … categories. PRWORA dramatically changed the systems that provide cash assistance and food stamps to low-income Americans. Along … reform legislation, PRWORA provided additional opportunities for them to "re-engineer" FSPs. The purpose of the study was to …

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Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform

Danziger, Sheldon H. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

The nine papers in this volume ask the authors to 'use their analyses to predict what is likely to happen to welfare caseloads, to recipient well-being, and to state budgets and policies when the next recession arrives.

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Against the Tide: Household Structure, Opportunities, and Outcomes among White and Minority Youth

Hill, Carolyn J.; Holzer, Harry J.; Chen, Henry - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book examines the effects of household structure on youth and young adults and how these effects might have contributed to the negative trends in educational and labor-market outcomes observed for young minorities over time.

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Mothers' Work and Children's Lives: Low-Income Families after Welfare Reform

Johnson, Rucker C.; Kalil, Ariel; Dunifon, Rachel E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book examines the effects of work requirements imposed by welfare reform on low-income women and their families. The authors pay particular attention to the nature of work, whether it is stable or unstable, the number of hours worked in a week, and the regularity and flexibility of work...

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Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform

Weber, Bruce A. (contributor); Duncan, Greg J. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This volume presents a comprehensive look at how welfare reforms enacted in 1996 are affecting caseloads, employment, earnings, and family well-being in rural areas.

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