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245	1	0	_aDoes it pay to move from welfare to work
260			_c2002
520	3		_aThe 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconcialiation Act requires welfare recipients to look for work and has made it more difficult for nonworking recipients to remain on the welfare rools. In addition, the economic boom of the 1990s and changes in federal and states policies have raised the net income gain associated with moving from welfare to work. This paper analyzes data from a panel survey of single mothers, all of whom received welfare in February 1997. In 1999, those who left welfare and were working had a higher household income and lower poverty rate, experienced a similar level of material harship, engaged in fewer activioties to make ends meet, and had lower expectations of experiencing hardship in the near future than did nonworking welfare recipients. Estimations of fixed-effect regressions of income that control for both observable and unobservable time-invariant characteristics show that monthly net income increases by $2.63 for every additional hour of work effort. About 60 percent of the observed monthly income difference between wage-reliant and welfare-reliant mothers can be attributed to differences in their work effort. Thusd, after welfare reform, it does pay to move from welfare to work
773	0	8	_tJournal of Policy Analysis and Management _g21, 4, p. 671-692 _d, 2002 _w
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998			_a20021223 _bLucima _cLucimara
998			_a20060525 _b1538^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c9663 _d9663
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