Welfare Reforms and Employment of Single Mothers: Are Rural Areas Keeping Pace?

Robert Lerman, Signe-Mary McKernan and Nancy Pindus

Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, 2001, vol. 16, issue 3

Abstract: Changes in social policies in the mid-1990s increased the penalties for not working and raised the rewards for working. These policies played a major role in stimulating employment among single mothers and the gains were approximately as high in nonmetro areas as in metro areas

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.289500

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