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Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006.
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Abstract
- The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act imposed work requirements on welfare recipients. Using 1999-2001 data from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, we compared the labor market and welfare experience of women with four employment barriers: poor mental health, moderate to heavy drug and alcohol use, a child with a behavior problem, and a child under the age of 3. Women with poor mental health and drug and alcohol users were much less likely to move into work than other groups, and more likely to be sanctioned for noncompliance with welfare requirements in 2000-2001 as federal work participation requirements increased
- Subjects :
- Behavior problem
030503 health policy & services
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1. No poverty
Alcohol users
Mental health
Welfare reform
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
5. Gender equality
Work (electrical)
8. Economic growth
Demographic economics
Moral responsibility
030212 general & internal medicine
Business
10. No inequality
0305 other medical science
Welfare
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a6a4546776e119d35bf17ae9e029704c