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Activity Number:
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255
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Social Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #308516 |
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Title:
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Factors That Facilitated and Inhibited Job-Holding Among Female AFDC/TANF Recipients in 1996
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Author(s):
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Denton Vaughan*+
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Companies:
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Consultant
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Address:
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11237 Handlebar Road, Reston, VA, 20191,
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Keywords:
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Welfare reform ; employment ; impediments ; facilitating factors ; multiple
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Abstract:
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This study employs the Survey of Income and Participation (SIPP) to assess the probability that AFDC/TANF recipients worked the initial year of welfare reform. A set of rather common place attributes were subjected to bi-variate statistical tests to assess their impact on jobholding of primary recipients. This simple descriptive approach shows that those who experienced one or more impediments accounted for more than four-fifths the national caseload. Of the more than one-quarter of primary recipients reporting three or more impediments, only 21 percent held a job in 1996. On the other hand, two-fifths of AFDC/TANF recipients reporting three or more factors that facilitated work held a job at some point during they year. Thus the AFDC/TANF caseload was very differentiated in terms of its capacity to take advantage of the new emphasis that welfare reform put on paid employment.
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