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Finding Jobs Work and Welfare Reform / David E. Card and Rebecca M. Blank, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unskilled labor--United States.
- Unskilled labor.
- Welfare recipients--Employment--United States.
- Welfare recipients.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (558 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Do plummeting welfare caseloads and rising employment prove that welfare reform policies have succeeded, or is this success due primarily to the job explosion created by today's robust economy?.
- Contents:
- Contents ; Contributors ; Introduction. The Labor Market and Welfare Reform / Rebecca M. Blank and David E. Card; Part I. The Demand for Low-Wage Workers ; Chapter 1. The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers over the Business Cycle / Hilary W. Hoynes; Chapter 2. Displacement and Wage Effects of Welfare Reform / Timothy J. Bartik; Part II. Wages and Job Characteristics in the Less Skilled Labor Market ; Chapter 3. Job Change and Job Stability Among Less Skilled Young Workers / Harry J. Holzer and Robert J. Lalonde
- Chapter 4. Wage Progression Among Less Skilled Workers / Tricia Gladden and Christopher TaberChapter 5. Gender Differences in the Low-Wage Labor Market / Jane Waldfogel and Susan E. Mayer ; Chapter 6. Health Insurance and Less Skilled Workers / Janet Currie and Aaron Yelowitz; Chapter 7. Employee-Based Versus Employer-Based Subsidies to Low-Wage Workers: A Public Finance Perspective / Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Douglas Holtz-Eakin; Part III. Public Politics to Increase Employment and Earnings of Less Skilled Workers
- Chapter 8. Public Service Employment and Mandatory Work: A Policy Whose Time Has Come and Gone and Come Again? / David T. Ellwood and Elisabeth D. WeltyChapter 9. Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families / Rebecca M. Blank, David E. Card, and Philip K. Robins; Chapter 10. Child Care and Mothers' Employment Decisions / Patricia M. Anderson and Phillip B. Levine; Part IV. The Impact of Welfare Reform ; Chapter 11. Use of Means-Tested Transfer Programs by Immigrants, Their Children, and Their Children's Children / Kristin F. Butcher and Luojia Hu
- Chapter 12. Time Limits / Robert A. Moffitt and LaDonna A. PavettiIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-535) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-104-4
- OCLC:
- 905604684
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