 A Helping Hand Goes a Long Way: Long-Term Effects of Counseling and Support to Welfare-to-Work Program RecipientsGustavo Bobonis, Aneta Bonikowska, Philip Oreopoulos, W Riddell and Steven Ryan No 26208, RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series from ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin) Abstract: We study the medium- and long-run impacts of the Canada Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) Plus program, which randomly offered intensive employment support services for up to three years to long-term welfare recipients eligible for temporary earnings subsidies. We examine whether this intervention-designed to address both economic and psychosocial barriers to finding and retaining desirable employment-produced long-run changes in individuals' socioeconomic trajectories. We link study participants to high-frequency survey data and to their federal tax and employer-employee matched records for up to 20 years following random assignment. The intensive services treatment resulted in a 20-27 percent increase in participants' annual earnings over the 20-year period and sustained increases in full-time employment during the first decade post-intervention. As potential mechanisms, treated individuals engaged in more job search and job-to-job transitions and secured employment in higher-wage jobs and at higher-paying firms. Keywords: Welfare-to-Work Programs; Self-Sufficiency Project; SSP Plus; Temporary Income Subsidies; Counselling and Support; Long Term Impacts (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:crm:wpaper:26208 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series from ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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