Immigrant and native responses to welfare reform

Robert Kaestner and Neeraj Kaushal

Journal of Population Economics, 2005, vol. 18, issue 1, 69-92

Abstract: We investigate the effect of welfare reform in the US on the employment and hours of work of low-educated foreign-born and native-born women. For foreign-born women, we investigate whether the effect of welfare reform differed by year of immigration. We also examine whether the immigrant provisions of welfare reform had a “chilling” effect on those who remained eligible for benefits. Results suggest that welfare reform induced low-educated women to increase their labor market attachment; reform had larger effects on the least educated native-born women and among foreign-born, larger effects on more recent arrivals. The “chilling” hypothesis is not supported. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2005

Keywords: J21; I38; Employment; hours of work; social policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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