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The potential for work enforcement: A study of WIN

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Given the impediments around them, can welfare recipients be required to work? Most analysts have answered no. They say the recipients are usually kept from employment by socioeconomic barriers, such as insufficient jobs, and the disincentives to work inherent in welfare. Studies of recent AFDC work programs make them look promising but do not directly address the potential for work enforcement. This article, a cross-sectional study of state WIN programs in 1979, suggests that work requirements could raise work levels substantially despite the impediments. But requirements probably do not improve the quality of jobs recipients are able to get. Therefore, enforcement serves the goal of integration, but to achieve greater economic equality will require additional reforms.

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  • Lawrence M. Mead, 1987. "The potential for work enforcement: A study of WIN," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 7(2), pages 264-288.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jpamgt:v:7:y:1987:i:2:p:264-288
    DOI: 10.2307/3323828
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