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Explaining Welfare Reform: Public Choice and the Labor Market (1999)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Moffitt, Robert |
| Abstract | This paper seeks to identify factors that could plausibly have led to the contractionary welfare reform initiatives begun at the state and federal levels in the United States in the 1990s, initiatives concentrated on the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. A review of aggregate time-series evidence, cross-sectional regression research, and studies of attitudes toward welfare spending and toward welfare recipients suggests a role for three types of factors. First, a major expansion of the U.S. welfare system in the late 1980s in terms of expenditures and caseloads may have led voters to want to retrench by cutting back on the AFDC program, even though that program was not primarily responsible for the expansion. Second, declines in the relative and absolute levels of household income, wages, and employment rates among the disadvantaged population may have driven up caseloads and costs, increased the social distance of voters from the poor, heightened concern with wor... |
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| Publisher Date | 1999-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Major Expansion Labor Market Cross-sectional Regression Research Disadvantaged Population Public Choice Contractionary Welfare Reform U.s. Welfare System Afdc Program Household Income Aggregate Time-series Evidence Dependent Child Employment Rate Welfare Reform Welfare Spending Absolute Level Welfare Recipient Late 1980s Social Distance Federal Level |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
