Anti-poverty policy in the U.S. has emphasized labor supply policies, such as welfare reform or job training. Anti …-poverty policy in the U.S. has not emphasized policies to increase labor demand for the poor, such as public employment or … different groups? This paper estimates and simulates a model with several types of labor, using data from the Current Population …

Economists have traditionally had a keen interest in the effects of overall labor demand on the economic well-being of … to local data to determine the effects of labor demand. The wide variety of demand conditions in local economies create a … "natural laboratory" for determining the true effects of overall labor demand. These recent studies generally find that …

increases labor supply. This paper considers the labor supply effects of the welfare reforms that have occurred since 1993, when … provides new estimates, of how many additional labor force participants have entered the labor force due to welfare reform. I … estimate that welfare reform from 1993-96 increased the U.S. labor force by between 100,000 and 300,000 persons. Between 1996 …

the dynamics of the local labor market, which go beyond the typical measures of unemployment rate, help to explain the … to employment that are different from the rest of the labor force and thus variables that more closely reflect their …