MAKING WORK PAY FOR WELFARE RECIPIENTS

David Greenberg, Charles H. Michalopoulos, Philip Robins and Robert H. Wood

Contemporary Economic Policy, 1995, vol. 13, issue 3, 39-52

Abstract: This paper describes five new welfare reform programs being tested in six areas of the United States and Canada. These programs all use financial incentives to encourage selfsufficiency among welfare recipients. Some programs also provide employment and training services. A microsimulation model is used to predict the impacts of the two most generous programs: the Canadian Self‐Sufficiency Project (SSP) and the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP). The simulation results suggest that SSP and MFIP will modestly increase the number of welfare recipients who work. However, because SSP has a fulltime work requirement and MFIP does not, only SSP is predicted to generate an increase in fulltime employment

Date: 1995
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