The effects of welfare-to-work program activities on labor market outcomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dyke, Andrew; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R.; Jeon, Kyung-Seong
• 署名单位: University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; University of Kentucky
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/504642
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 567-607
• 关键词: estimators; EMPLOYMENT; responses; IMPACT

摘要

Studies examining welfare-to-work program effectiveness present mixed and sometimes discrepant findings, partly due to research design, data, and methodological limitations. Using administrative data on Missouri and North Carolina welfare recipients, we substantially improve on past estimation approaches to identify the distinct effects of each state's welfare-to-work subprograms-assessment, job search assistance and job readiness training, and more intensive programs designed to augment human capital. More intensive training is associated with greater initial earnings losses but also greater long-run earnings gains. The negative program impacts we observe in quarters.