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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
MOVING PUBLIC ASSISTANCE RECIPIENTS INTO THE LABOR FORCE, 1996-2000
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| Autores: |
Hanson, Kenneth
Hamrick, Karen S.
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| Data: |
2004-12-09
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| Ano: |
2004
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| Palavras-chave: |
Public assistance
Low-income households
Food Stamp Program
Welfare reform
Labor markets
Low-skill
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) model
Scenario analysis
Labor and Human Capital
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| Resumo: |
Moving recipients of public assistance into jobs is a goal of the current system for providing public assistance to low-income households. Using scenario analysis with a computable general equilibrium model, ERS researchers examined some of the labor market impacts of the "welfare-to work" provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). The results show that, from 1996 to 2000, the influx of public assistance recipients into the labor force put downward wage pressure on low-skill occupations, making wage growth smaller than it would have been without the influx. At the same time, the influx added workers to the labor force, which contributed to economic growth. By expanding the labor force, the influx contributed 1 percentage point of real economic growth in terms of gross domestic product from 1996 through 2000.
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| Tipo: |
Report
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
15446
http://purl.umn.edu/33839
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
United States Department of Agriculture>Economic Research Service>Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Reports
Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report Number 40
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| Formato: |
46
application/pdf
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