Publication Date

1-1-1999

DOI

10.17848/9780585241043

Abstract

The relationship between welfare caseloads and the economy is one of the key issues addressed in this book. Using the most current data available, a group of the nation's leading researchers examines the effects of welfare reform prior to and after enactment of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA).

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Download 1. Introduction: What Are the Early Lessons? / Sheldon Danziger (930 KB)

Download 2. Welfare Reform, the Business Cycle, and the Decline of AFDC Caseloads / David N. Figlio and James P. Ziliak (1.8 MB)

Download 3. What Goes Up Must Come Down?: Explaining Recent Changes in Public Assistance Caseloads / Geoffrey Wallace and Rebecca M. Blank (2.1 MB)

Download 4. The Effect of Pre-PRWORA Waivers on AFDC Caseloads and Female Earnings, Income, and Labor Force Behavior / Robert A. Moffitt (1.5 MB)

Download 5. Examining the Effect of Industry Trends and Structure on Welfare Caseloads / Timothy J. Bartik and Randall W. Eberts (2.1 MB)

Download 6. Work, Earnings, and Well-Being after Welfare: What Do We Know? / Maria Cancian, Robert Haveman, Thomas Kaplan, Daniel Meyer, and Barbara Wolfe (1.6 MB)

Download 7. Employer Demand for Welfare Recipients and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Recent Employer Surveys / Harry J. Holzer (1.7 MB)

Download 8. What Will the States do When Jobs Are Not Plentiful?: Policy and Implementation Challenges / LaDonna A. Pavetti (1.7 MB)

Download 9. Cyclical Welfare Costs in the Post-Reform Era: Will There Be Enough Money? / Phillip B. Levine (1.4 MB)

Download 10. The States, Welfare Reform, and the Business Cycle / Howard Chernick and Therese J. McGuire (1.7 MB)

Contents

1. Introduction: What Are the Early Lessons? / Sheldon Danziger

Part I: Why Are Caseloads Falling?

2. Welfare Reform, the Business Cycle, and the Decline of AFDC Caseloads / David N. Figlio and James P. Ziliak

3. What Goes Up Must Come Down?: Explaining Recent Changes in Public Assistance Caseloads / Geoffrey Wallace and Rebecca M. Blank

4. The Effect of Pre-PRWORA Waivers on AFDC Caseloads and Female Earnings, Income, and Labor Force Behavior / Robert A. Moffitt

5. Examining the Effect of Industry Trends and Structure on Welfare Caseloads / Timothy J. Bartik and Randall W. Eberts

Part II: How Are Recipients Faring?

6. Work, Earnings, and Well-Being after Welfare: What Do We Know? / Maria Cancian, Robert Haveman, Thomas Kaplan, Daniel Meyer, and Barbara Wolfe

7. Employer Demand for Welfare Recipients and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Recent Employer Surveys / Harry J. Holzer

Part III: How Are the States Responding?

8. What Will the States do When Jobs Are Not Plentiful?: Policy and Implementation Challenges / LaDonna A. Pavetti

9. Cyclical Welfare Costs in the Post-Reform Era: Will There Be Enough Money? / Phillip B. Levine

10. The States, Welfare Reform, and the Business Cycle / Howard Chernick and Therese J. McGuire

Sponsorship

Presented at a conference held in November 1998; funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) at the Dept. of Health and Human Services.

ISBN

9780880992008 (cloth) ; 9780880991995 (pbk.) ; 9780585241043 (ebook)

Subject Areas

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAMS; Poverty and income support; Income support programs; WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT; Public training programs; Welfare to work

Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform

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Danziger, Sheldon H., ed. 1999. Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. https://doi.org/10.17848/9780585241043

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