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Making Work Pay For Welfare Recipients

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  • David H. Greenberg
  • Charles H. Michalopoulos
  • Philip K. Robins
  • Robert H. Wood

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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

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  • David H. Greenberg & Charles H. Michalopoulos & Philip K. Robins & Robert H. Wood, 1995. "Making Work Pay For Welfare Recipients," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 13(3), pages 39-52, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:coecpo:v:13:y:1995:i:3:p:39-52
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1995.tb00007.x
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    1. David H. Greenberg & David Long & Daniel Meyer & Charles Michalopoulos & Philip K. Robins, 1995. "Using Microsimulation To Help Design Pilot Demonstrations," Evaluation Review, , vol. 19(6), pages 687-706, December.
    2. John Greenwood, 2000. "Earnings Supplementation as a Means to Re-integrate the Unemployed," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 26(s1), pages 235-256, July.

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