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| Title: | Welfare Reform in Agricultural California |
| Authors: | Green, Richard D.
Martin, Philip L.
Taylor, J. Edward |
| Keywords: | cross-sectionally correlated and timewise autoregressive model
farm workers
immigration
welfare reform |
| Issue Date: | 2003-04 |
| Abstract: | When welfare reforms were enacted in 1996, a higher than average percentage of residents in the agricultural heartland of California, the San Joaquin Valley, received cash assistance. Average annual unemployment rates during the 1990s ranged from 12% to 20%, and 15% to 20% of residents in major farming counties received cash benefits. This analysis develops and estimates a two-equation cross-sectionally correlated and timewise autoregressive model to test the hypothesis that in agricultural areas, seasonal work, low earnings, and high unemployment, as well as few entry-level jobs that offer wages and benefits equivalent to welfare benefits, promote welfare use and limit the potential of local labor markets to absorb ex-welfare recipients. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/30715 |
| Institution/Association: | Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics>Volume 28, Number 01, April 2003 |
| Total Pages: | 15 |
| Language: | English |
| From Page: | 169 |
| To Page: | 183 |
| Collections: | Volume 28, Number 01, April 2003
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