Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform [Hardcover]

David E. Card (Editor), Rebecca M. Blank (Editor)

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Publication Date: July 2000 | ISBN-10: 0871541165 | ISBN-13: 978-0871541161

Finding Jobs is an informative and wide-ranging inquiry into the issues raised by welfare reform. Although the research presented in this book demonstrates that it is possible to find jobs for people who have traditionally relied on public assistance, it also offers cautionary evidence that today's strong economy may mask underlying problems. Based on comprehensive new data, this volume offers valuable guidance to policymakers looking to design policies that will increase work, raise incomes, and lower poverty in changing economic conditions.

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"In a field replete with puzzles, this collection of new empirical research confirms some past knowledge and solves some old mysteries. This book reminds us that the most powerful assistance program for low-skilled workers is a strong economy, and it removes any remaining doubt about whether wage subsidies, public service employment, and financial incentives in general can raise employment and earnings of low-skill workers--they can." Henry J. Aaron, The Brookings Institution

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• Hardcover: 549 pages
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation (July 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871541165
• ISBN-13: 978-0871541161
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,150,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A hard-hitting and documented examination, August 10, 2002

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Collaboratively edited by National Bureau of Economic Research associates David Card (Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley) and Rebecca M. Blank (Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan), Finding Jobs: Work And Welfare Reform is a hard-hitting and documented examination of the nationally vital issue of how "welfare-to-work" transitional programs have affected both individual families and the nation at large. A carefully descriptive and scholarly assessed inquiry of the low-skill labor market in changing economic climates, including a projected climate of recession, Finding Jobs gives the good, the bad, and the ugly facts about welfare reform. Touting earned income tax credits, scrutinizing the costs of changing the welfare system, and written with the goal of finding ways to lower overall poverty, Finding Jobs is a highly recommended social and economic treatise, and essential reading for policy makers, social issue activists, and academia concerned with the American economy in general, and the impact of contemporary welfare reforms in particular.