Measuring Wage Growth Among Former Welfare Recipients

David Card, Charles Michalopoulos () and Philip Robins

Working Papers from Gouvernement du Canada - Human Resources Development

Abstract: We study the rate of wage growth among long-term welfare recipients in the self-sufficiency Project (SSP) who were induced by the financial incentives of the program to enter the work force. We find that single parents who began working in response to the SSP incentive are younger, less educated, have more young children, and have less positive attitudes toward work than those who would have been working regardless of the SSP.

Keywords: WAGES; LABOUR MARKET; SOCIAL WELFARE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I39 J20 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2001
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