Finding jobs : work and welfare reform / David E. Card and Rebecca M. Blank, editors.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2000.
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viii, 549 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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      "The coordinated push to move an increasing number of welfare recipients off assistance and into full-time work has raised a number of key questions about the nature of the labor market for less skilled workers: Will employment opportunities for former welfare recipients be vulnerable to future recessions? How quickly will workers' wages grow as they gain labor market experience? What is the effect of eligibility time limits on those who remain on welfare despite financial incentives and administrative prodding to leave? The twelve chapters in this book address these and many other important questions about the labor market prospects facing less skilled workers in the aftermath of recent welfare reform legislation." -- p. 1.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Contents
      • The labor market and welfare reform / Rebecca M. Blank, David E. Card
      • The employment, earnings, and income of less skilled workers over the business cycle / Hilary W. Hoynes
      • Displacement and wage effects of welfare reform / Timothy J. Bartik
      • Job change and job stability among less skilled young workers / Harry J. Holzer, Robert J. LaLonde
      • Wage progression among less skilled workers / Tricia Gladden, Christopher Taber
      • Gender differences in the low-wage labor market /Jane Waldfogel, Susan E. Mayer
      • Health insurance and less skilled workers / Janet Currie, Aaron Yelowitz
      • Employee-based versus employer-based subsidies to low-wage workers: a public finance perspective / Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Douglas Holtz-Eakin
      • Public service employment and mandatory work: a policy whose time has come and gone and come again? / David T. Ellwood, Elisabeth D. Welty
      • Financial incentives for increasing work and income among low-income families / Rebecca M. Blank, David E. Card, Philip K. Robins
      • Child care and mothers' employment decisions / Patricia M. Anderson, Phillip B. Levine
      • Use of means-tested transfer programs by immigrants, their children, and their children's children / Kristin F. Butcher, Luojia Hu
      • Time limits / Robert A. Moffitt, LaDonna A. Pavetti.
      ISBN
      • 0871541165
      • 9780871541161
      LCCN
      00020794
      OCLC
      43287257
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