Labor Force and Welfare Program Participation

This research examines the quantitative impacts of welfare program characteristics and individual characteristics on both the labor force and welfare participation decisions of low-income females with children. The participation decisions are estimated jointly as a bivariate probit model using data derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey for the years 1979 to 1990, inclusive. These data allow the estimation of the precise behavioral impacts of welfare. The main empirical findings are that effective welfare guarantee levels and the effective welfare tax rate on unearned income both significantly affect the probability of labor force and welfare program participation, but that such impacts are very small in magnitude. Implications for policy are discussed

Affect (linguistics) · Bivariate analysis · Current Population Survey · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Estimation · Labour economics · Multivariate probit model · Population · Probit · Probit model · Public economics · Statistics · Survey data collection · Survey of Income and Program Participation · Welfare · Demography · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Psychology

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