This paper reviews the U.S. welfare reform efforts over the 1990s and the effects of these reforms to date. Seven … paper ends with some speculations about why European policy-makers are becoming more interested in U.S. welfare reform …

The nation's best known welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was created to give widows and … lifetime five-year limit, making it critically important for welfare recipients to find stable, full-time employment that pays … and program administrators create successful welfare-to-work programs in Los Angeles County, which has the nation …

This paper reviews the U.S. welfare reform efforts over the 1990s and the effects of these reforms to date. Seven … skills. The paper ends with some speculations about why European policy-makers are becoming more interested in U.S. welfare …

Welfare-to-work programs ... …

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina …

creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants … population with over 60 percent of immigrants coming from Latin America and the Caribbean. While past research suggests negative …

-education, but also one of the few to study the moderating roles of gender and education for detailed categories of immigrants. With … particularly critical among higher-educated immigrants. Gender-based differences in immigrants' penalties, in contrast, are found … immigrants born in developing countries to be over-educated and that citizenship acquisition is also associated with …