TY  - JOUR
AU  - Meara,Ellen
AU  - Frank,Richard
TI  - Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12480
PY  - 2006
Y2  - August 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12480
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12480.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ellen Meara
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
180 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-5899
Tel: 617/432-3537
Fax: 617/432-0173
E-Mail: meara@hcp.med.harvard.edu

Richard Frank
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
180 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617/432-0178
Fax: 617/432-1219
E-Mail: frank@hcp.med.harvard.edu
AB  - 
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act imposed work requirements on welfare recipients.  Using 1999-2001 data from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, we compared the labor market and welfare experience of women with four employment barriers: poor mental health, moderate to heavy drug and alcohol use, a child with a behavior problem, and a child under the age of 3.  Women with poor mental health and drug and alcohol users were much less likely to move into work than other groups, and more likely to be sanctioned for noncompliance with welfare requirements in 2000-2001 as federal work participation requirements increased


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