Welfare reform, work requirements, and employment barriers
By: Ellen Meara, Richard Frank
Contributors: Frank, Richard; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 12480; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 12480.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act imposed work requirements on welfare recipients.  Using 1999-2001 data from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, we compared the labor market and welfare experience of women with four employment barriers: poor mental health, moderate to heavy drug and alcohol use, a child with a behavior problem, and a child under the age of 3.  Women with poor mental health and drug and alcohol users were much less likely to move into work than other groups, and more likely to be sanctioned for noncompliance with welfare requirements in 2000-2001 as federal work participation requirements increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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