characteristics of recipients, and broad patterns of welfare participation. They also offer an evaluative survey on the effectiveness …

learned. They compare welfare leaver outcomes across geographic areas and the nation as a whole. This effort allows them to … paint a comprehensive picture of the employment, income, and hardships families experience after leaving welfare. …

held by welfare mothers during the preceding year affects their employment and earnings at the time of the March interview … examines how the types of jobs held by welfare mothers during the preceding year affects their employment and earnings at the … negatively correlated with current employment. The size of the firm employing a welfare recipient last year has no effect on …

Inner-city business development is often proposed as a solution to inner-city poverty. However, research evidence … the inner city poor. Public subsidies for inner city business development may be justified by greater environmental … boost in inner city business development may be provided by a combination of economic development incentives with enhanced …

Will welfare reform increase unemployment and reduce wages? The answer depends in part on how much welfare reform … increases labor supply. This paper considers the labor supply effects of the welfare reforms that have occurred since 1993, when … President Clinton entered office with a promise to "end welfare as we know it." The paper reviews previous estimates, and …

subsidies for doing so. Do these subsidies—the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and Welfare-to-Work Tax Credit (WtW …

participate in the labor market and whether to receive welfare. Hourly child care expenditures are estimated for all women in the … child care. These expenditures are then included as an independent variable predicting the probability of welfare recipiency … welfare recipiency, with a child care price elasticity of welfare recipiency equaling 0.28. The estimated child care price …

evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan welfare-to-work program in which program participants were randomly … placing participants in either temporary or direct-hire jobs improves their odds of leaving welfare and escaping poverty in … the short term. However, we find that only direct-hire placements help reduce welfare dependency over longer time horizons …

Previous studies of the macro-economic determinants of welfare caseloads have had difficulty in explaining changes in … welfare caseloads during the last decade or so using the simple macroeconomic measure of unemployment. Because welfare … employment growth, are also important in determining welfare caseloads, as we show empirically in this study. Recognizing that …