Low-Income and Welfare Client Priorities: Patterns of Earnings and Welfare Receipt for Workforce Investment Act Participants

Peter Mueser and David W. Stevens

No 313, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Missouri

Abstract: This paper examines labor market and welfare experiences of participants in Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs who exited in July 2000-June 2001. Administrative data from six states on earnings and welfare receipt are used to trace the experiences of participants in the two years prior to and in the year following exit from WIA. Individuals are classified as Adults or Dislocated Workers and by whether they received Training or less intensive services under WIA. We find that Adults have large employment gains associated with participation in WIA, and Adults in Training have particularly large earnings gains. Following losses, employment and earnings of Dislocated Workers largely recover following WIA participation. Welfare receipt declines, especially for those in Training activities. Despite some differences, similarities between states in basic patterns are striking.

JEL-codes: H43 I32 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pgs.
Date: 2003-10-17
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Published in "A Compilation of Selected Papers from the Employment and Training Administration's 2003 Biennial National Research Conference." Washington: U.S. Department of Labor, 2003

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