Can Work Alter Welfare Recipients' Beliefs?

Autor/in	Gottschalk, Peter
Titel	Can Work Alter Welfare Recipients' Beliefs?
Quelle	In: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 24 (2005) 3, S.485-498 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0276-8739
DOI	10.1002/pam.20111
Schlagwörter	Welfare Services; Tax Credits; Welfare Recipients; Employment Programs; Age Differences; Work Attitudes; Attitude Change; Beliefs; Public Policy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fürsorgeeinrichtung; Steuerermäßigung; Sozialhilfeempfänger; Sozialhilfeempfängerin; Employment program; Employment programme; Employment programmes; Beschäftigungsprogramm; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Belief; Glaube; Öffentliche Ordnung
Abstract	A common argument in support of work-based welfare reform is that exposure to work will lead welfare recipients to revise their beliefs about how they will be treated in the labor market. This paper explores the analytical and empirical basis for this argument. The difficulty in testing the assumption that work leads to a change in beliefs is that there is an inherent simultaneity between work and beliefs. Welfare recipients who work may have different beliefs because they learn about the world of work once they enter the labor market. Alternatively, welfare recipients who have a more positive view of work are the ones who are more likely to work. We use a unique data set that helps solve this simultaneity problem. We find that exogenous increases in work induced by an experimental tax credit led to the predicted change in beliefs among younger workers. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10