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Economic conditions and welfare reform / Sheldon H. Danziger, editor.
LIBRA HV91 .E26 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--Economic aspects--United States--Congresses.
- Public welfare.
- Welfare recipients--United States--Economic conditions--Congresses.
- Welfare recipients.
- Economic conditions.
- Public welfare--Economic aspects.
- United States--Economic conditions--1981---Congresses.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1999.
- Contents:
- Reforming Welfare 1
- Why Are Caseloads Falling? 7
- How Are Recipients Faring? 9
- How Are the States Responding? 11
- Part I Why Are Caseloads Falling? 15
- Welfare Reform, the Business Cycle, and the Decline in AFDC Caseloads / David N. Figlio, James P. Ziliak 17
- Review of Caseload Literature 19
- Reconciling the CEA and Ziliak et al. 24
- What Will Happen to Recipiency Rates in the Next Recession? 37
- What Goes Up Must Come Down? / Geoffrey Wallace, Rebecca M. Blank 49
- Existing Research on Caseload Change 52
- Why Food Stamp Caseloads Are Also Interesting 56
- Estimates of the Determinants of Both AFDC/TANF and Food Stamp Caseloads 57
- How Well Do These Estimates Explain Both the Rise and Fall of Caseloads? 66
- Cross-Checking These Estimates with Monthly Data 72
- The Effect of Pre-PRWORA Waivers on AFDC Caseloads and Female Earnings, Income, and Labor Force Behavior / Robert A. Moffitt 91
- Replicating the CEA Report Findings 94
- Extending the Model to the CPS 100
- Business Cycle Sensitivity 107
- Examining the Effect of Industry Trends and Structure on Welfare Caseloads / Timothy J. Bartik, Randall W. Eberts 119
- Extension of State-Level Estimates 122
- Part II How Are Recipients Faring? 159
- Work, Earnings, and Well-Being after Welfare / Maria Cancian, Robert Haveman, Thomas Kaplan, Daniel Meyer, Barbara Wolfe 161
- Previous Studies of Postwelfare Economic Prospects 163
- The Postwelfare Experience of AFDC Recipients
- National Survey Data 164
- The Postwelfare Experience in Wisconsin
- Administrative Data 169
- Studies of the Postwelfare Experience in Other States 176
- Employer Demand for Welfare Recipients and the Business Cycle / Harry J. Holzer 187
- The New Employer Data 189
- Empirical Results 190
- Part III How Are the States Responding? 219
- What Will the States Do When Jobs Are Not Plentiful? / LaDonna A. Pavetti 221
- Welfare Reform in a Robust Economy 221
- Implementing Work-Based Reforms When Jobs Are More Scarce 224
- Factors Affecting the Magnitude of the Policy and Implementation Challenges 243
- Cyclical Welfare Costs in the Post-Reform Era / Phillip B. Levine 249
- How Much Does a Recession Cost? 251
- Who Will Pay These Costs? 254
- Financing Cyclical Costs in the Unemployment Insurance System 258
- Historical Patterns of UI Trust Fund Adequacy 259
- Are State UI Trust Funds Big Enough? 263
- The States, Welfare Reform, and the Business Cycle / Howard Chernick, Therese J. McGuire 275
- Lessons from the Literature on Grants-in-Aid and Competition among Neighboring States 278
- The Volatility of State Revenues and Expenditures over the Business Cycle 292.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 088099200X
- 0880991992
- OCLC:
- 42476700
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