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Mary Corcoran - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The road to Economic self‐sufficiency: Job quality and job transition patterns after welfare reform
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003Co-Authors: Rucker C Johnson, Mary CorcoranAbstract:This paper analyzes the relationships of schooling, the skill content of work experience, and different types of employment patterns with less-skilled women's job quality outcomes. Survey data from employers and longitudinal data from former and current welfare recipients are used for the period 1997 to early 2002. The analysis of job quality is broadened beyond employment rates and wages measured at a point in time by including non-wage attributes of compensation and aspects of jobs that affect future earnings potential. This study shows the extent to which lack of employment stability, job skills, and occupation-specific experience impedes welfare recipients' abilities to obtain a “good job” or to transition into one from a “bad job.” The business cycle downturn has significantly negatively affected the job quality and job transition patterns of former and current recipients. © 2003 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
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Welfare, work experience, and Economic Self-Sufficiency
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2001Co-Authors: Susanna Loeb, Mary CorcoranAbstract:The potential of former AFDC recipients to earn a living wage is central to the success of welfare-to-work programs. Previous studies have found that welfare recipihyphen;ents see little increase in their wages over time. Low wage growth could arise from either low returns to work experience or low levels of experience. This distinction is important for designing effective welfare policy. In the following paper, we estimate how wages grew with work experience between 1978 and 1992 for a national sample of women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We compare women who never received welfare with both short- and long-term recipients in order to see to what extent the rates of wage growth with work experience differ. We find that they differ very little. We use numerous specification checks to test the robustness of our results and find consistent evidence that the wages of AFDC recipients grew at a rate similar to those of nonrecipients once work experience is taken into account. © 2001 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
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Welfare, Work Experience, And Economic Self-Sufficiency
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000Co-Authors: Susanna Loeb, Mary CorcoranAbstract:The potential of former AFDC recipients to earn a living wage is central to the success of welfare-to-work programs. Previous studies have found that welfare recipients see little increase in their wages over time. Low wage growth could arise from either low returns to work experience or low levels of experience. This distinction is important for designing effective welfare policy. In the following paper, we estimate how wages grew with work experience between 1978 and 1992 for a national sample of women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We compare women who never received welfare with both short- and long-term recipients in order to see to what extent the rates of wage growth with work experience differ. We find that they differ very little. We use numerous specification checks to test the robustness of our results and find consistent evidence that the wages of AFDC recipients grew at a rate similar to those of non-recipients once work experience is taken into account.
Rucker C Johnson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The road to Economic self‐sufficiency: Job quality and job transition patterns after welfare reform
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003Co-Authors: Rucker C Johnson, Mary CorcoranAbstract:This paper analyzes the relationships of schooling, the skill content of work experience, and different types of employment patterns with less-skilled women's job quality outcomes. Survey data from employers and longitudinal data from former and current welfare recipients are used for the period 1997 to early 2002. The analysis of job quality is broadened beyond employment rates and wages measured at a point in time by including non-wage attributes of compensation and aspects of jobs that affect future earnings potential. This study shows the extent to which lack of employment stability, job skills, and occupation-specific experience impedes welfare recipients' abilities to obtain a “good job” or to transition into one from a “bad job.” The business cycle downturn has significantly negatively affected the job quality and job transition patterns of former and current recipients. © 2003 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
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the road to Economic self sufficiency job quality and job transition patterns after welfare reform
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003Co-Authors: Rucker C Johnson, Mary E CorcoranAbstract:This paper analyzes the relationships of schooling, the skill content of work experience, and different types of employment patterns with less-skilled women's job quality outcomes. Survey data from employers and longitudinal data from former and current welfare recipients are used for the period 1997 to early 2002. The analysis of job quality is broadened beyond employment rates and wages measured at a point in time by including non-wage attributes of compensation and aspects of jobs that affect future earnings potential. This study shows the extent to which lack of employment stability, job skills, and occupation-specific experience impedes welfare recipients' abilities to obtain a “good job” or to transition into one from a “bad job.” The business cycle downturn has significantly negatively affected the job quality and job transition patterns of former and current recipients. © 2003 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
Mary E Corcoran - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the road to Economic self sufficiency job quality and job transition patterns after welfare reform
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003Co-Authors: Rucker C Johnson, Mary E CorcoranAbstract:This paper analyzes the relationships of schooling, the skill content of work experience, and different types of employment patterns with less-skilled women's job quality outcomes. Survey data from employers and longitudinal data from former and current welfare recipients are used for the period 1997 to early 2002. The analysis of job quality is broadened beyond employment rates and wages measured at a point in time by including non-wage attributes of compensation and aspects of jobs that affect future earnings potential. This study shows the extent to which lack of employment stability, job skills, and occupation-specific experience impedes welfare recipients' abilities to obtain a “good job” or to transition into one from a “bad job.” The business cycle downturn has significantly negatively affected the job quality and job transition patterns of former and current recipients. © 2003 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
Mary V. Alfred - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The development of Economic self‐sufficiency among former welfare recipients: lessons learned from Wisconsin’s welfare to work program
International Journal of Training and Development, 2007Co-Authors: Mary V. Alfred, Larry G. MartinAbstract:In 1996, the US Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, changing the culture of welfare from a system of dependency to one of personal responsibility and Economic Self-Sufficiency through workplace participation. Through the expert views of case managers and area employers of Wisconsin, this research sought to identify the problems and barriers to Self-Sufficiency among former welfare recipients and other low-income workers and the effectiveness of services and programs available to address these barriers. The study found situational barriers, education and learning experience barriers, personal issues and disabilities to impede the development of low-income workers. The services found to promote the development of Economic Self-Sufficiency among former welfare recipients were support services, educational and learning programs, employer intervention services and counseling services. The findings suggest that these services could be expanded and made more effective through the collaborative efforts of welfare reform agencies, employers, educational institutions and community-based organizations.
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The Invisible Realities of Welfare Reform in Wisconsin: Perspectives of African American Women and Their Employers.
2005Co-Authors: Mary V. AlfredAbstract:This study explored the experiences of African American women as they transitioned from welfare to work and develop Economic Self-Sufficiency. The barriers to Self-Sufficiency included the "work-first” philosophy and case management practices, labor market conditions and employment practices, and personal history. HRD can help minimize these barriers through collaborations with welfare reform agencies, community organizations, and educational institutions to offer workplace education that would address the low literacy and work skills of former welfare recipients.
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Does Wisconsin Works Work? Perspectives of Participating Women and their Employers
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2005Co-Authors: Mary V. AlfredAbstract:Using a qualitative approach, this study explored the experiences of African American women in Milwaukee, WI as they transitioned from welfare to work and the barriers and challenges that impeded their movement to a position of Economic Self-Sufficiency. The study also sought the perspectives of employers on their experiences with post-welfare African American women in the workplace. The study found three systems of barriers to impede the women’s progress. These barriers were the work-first philosophy and case management practices at the local level, labor market conditions and employment practices, and personal history and responsibility. These findings suggest that any reform effort must address both the personal and structural barriers that inhibit movement towards Economic Self-Sufficiency.
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2003 Midwest Research to Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education An Interactive Approach to Economic Development Among African American Former Welfare Recipients: Shattering the Myth of the Work-First Approach
2003Co-Authors: Mary V. AlfredAbstract:This study explored the experiences of African American women as they transition from welfare to work and the barriers and challenges that impede their move to a position of Economic self- sufficiency. The study found three systems of barriers to impede the women's progress. These include W-2 systems barriers, workplace barriers, and personal barriers. Removing the barriers must first be addressed before families can become self-sufficient.
Larry G. Martin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The development of Economic self‐sufficiency among former welfare recipients: lessons learned from Wisconsin’s welfare to work program
International Journal of Training and Development, 2007Co-Authors: Mary V. Alfred, Larry G. MartinAbstract:In 1996, the US Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, changing the culture of welfare from a system of dependency to one of personal responsibility and Economic Self-Sufficiency through workplace participation. Through the expert views of case managers and area employers of Wisconsin, this research sought to identify the problems and barriers to Self-Sufficiency among former welfare recipients and other low-income workers and the effectiveness of services and programs available to address these barriers. The study found situational barriers, education and learning experience barriers, personal issues and disabilities to impede the development of low-income workers. The services found to promote the development of Economic Self-Sufficiency among former welfare recipients were support services, educational and learning programs, employer intervention services and counseling services. The findings suggest that these services could be expanded and made more effective through the collaborative efforts of welfare reform agencies, employers, educational institutions and community-based organizations.
