Welfare to temporary work: Implications for labor market outcomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Heinrich, CJ; Mueser, PR; Troske, KR
• 署名单位: University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/0034653053327667
• 发表日期: 2005-02
• 页码: 154-173
• 关键词: growth

摘要

We explore the effects of temporary help employment on welfare recipients' subsequent employment and welfare dynamics. We find that any employment-in temporary help services or other sectors-yields substantial benefits compared to no employment. Although welfare recipients who go to work for temporary help service firms have lower initial wages than those with jobs in other sectors, they experience faster subsequent wage growth. Two years later, they are no less likely to be employed, their wages are close to those of other workers, and they are only slightly more likely to remain on welfare.