Contents
Contributors
Introduction. The Labor Market and Welfare Reform / Rebecca M. Blank and David E. Card
Part I. The Demand for Low-Wage Workers
Chapter 1. The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers over the Business Cycle / Hilary W. Hoynes
Chapter 2. Displacement and Wage Effects of Welfare Reform / Timothy J. Bartik
Part II. Wages and Job Characteristics in the Less Skilled Labor Market
Chapter 3. Job Change and Job Stability Among Less Skilled Young Workers / Harry J. Holzer and Robert J. Lalonde
Chapter 4. Wage Progression Among Less Skilled Workers / Tricia Gladden and Christopher Taber
Chapter 5. Gender Differences in the Low-Wage Labor Market / Jane Waldfogel and Susan E. Mayer
Chapter 6. Health Insurance and Less Skilled Workers / Janet Currie and Aaron Yelowitz
Chapter 7. Employee-Based Versus Employer-Based Subsidies to Low-Wage Workers: A Public Finance Perspective / Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Part III. Public Politics to Increase Employment and Earnings of Less Skilled Workers
Chapter 8. Public Service Employment and Mandatory Work: A Policy Whose Time Has Come and Gone and Come Again? / David T. Ellwood and Elisabeth D. Welty
Chapter 9. Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families / Rebecca M. Blank, David E. Card, and Philip K. Robins
Chapter 10. Child Care and Mothers' Employment Decisions / Patricia M. Anderson and Phillip B. Levine
Part IV. The Impact of Welfare Reform
Chapter 11. Use of Means-Tested Transfer Programs by Immigrants, Their Children, and Their Children's Children / Kristin F. Butcher and Luojia Hu
Chapter 12. Time Limits / Robert A. Moffitt and LaDonna A. Pavetti
Index