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Expectations And Welfare Work: Win In New York City

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  • Lawrence M. Mead

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Work requirements for welfare recipients have done l i t t l e to reduce the welfare rolls. The usual explanation that limited skills and openings prevent recipients working is unpersuasive, since low‐skilled work seems to be quite widely available. This study of the Work Incentive (WIN) program, the main welfare work program, in New York City found that whether recipients work depends mainly on whether WIN seriously expects them to. Thus, the welfare work problem is more political than economic. It lies in our reluctance to obligate recipients to function socially as we would other people.

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  • Lawrence M. Mead, 1983. "Expectations And Welfare Work: Win In New York City," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 2(4), pages 648-662, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:2:y:1983:i:4:p:648-662
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1983.tb00794.x
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    1. Laurence E. Lynn, 1994. "Public management research: The triumph of art over science," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 13(2), pages 231-259.
    2. Howard S. Bloom & Carolyn J. Hill & James A. Riccio, 2003. "Linking program implementation and effectiveness: Lessons from a pooled sample of welfare-to-work experiments," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 22(4), pages 551-575.
    3. James A. Riccio & Alan Orenstein, 1996. "Understanding Best Practices for Operating Welfare-To-Work Programs," Evaluation Review, , vol. 20(1), pages 3-28, February.

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