Moving Public Assistance Recipients Into the Labor Force, 1996-2000

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英文名称：

Moving Public Assistance Recipients Into the Labor Force, 1996-2000

作者：

Kenneth Hanson; Karen Hamrick

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=46840

关键词：

Public assistance;  low-income households;  Food Stamp Program;  welfare reform;  labor markets;  low-skill;  computable general equilibrium (CGE) model;  scenario analysis;  Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program;  FANRP; 

年份：

2004

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

46 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

Moving recipients of public assistance into jobs is a goal of the current system for providing public assistance to low-income households. Using scenario analysis with a computable general equilibrium model, ERS researchers examined some of the labor market impacts of the "welfare-to-work" provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). The results show that, from 1996 to 2000, the influx of public assistance recipients into the labor force put downward wage pressure on low-skill occupations, making wage growth smaller than it would have been without the influx. At the same time, the influx added workers to the labor force, which contributed to economic growth. By expanding the labor force, the influx contributed 1 percentage point of real economic growth in terms of gross domestic product from 1996 through 2000.