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来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.54,P.357-376

语言

英文

关键字

I38;J61;J68;Migration;Welfare reform;Employment

作者单位

Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago, 815 West Van Buren Street, Suite 525, Chicago, IL 60607, USA"}]},{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"AFF002;School of Social Work, Columbia University, 622 West 113th Street, New York, NY 10025, USA"}]},{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"AFF003;School of Public Affairs, Baruch College/CUNY, 17 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA"}]},{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"COR001;Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago, 815 West Van Buren Street, Suite 525, Chicago, IL 60607, USA"}]},"AFF002":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"AFF002;School of Social Work, Columbia University, 622 West 113th Street, New York, NY 10025, USA"}]},"AFF003":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"AFF003;School of Public Affairs, Baruch College/CUNY, 17 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA"}]}},"correspondences":{"COR001":{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"COR001

摘要

We investigate whether recent changes in welfare policy affect the migration of low-educated unmarried mothers. Estimates indicate that welfare reform is associated with an increase in employment-related intrastate migration, and a decrease in non-employment related migration, both within and between states. The net effect was a small increase in intrastate migration and a small decrease in interstate migration. The close link between migration and employment suggests that welfare reform has motivated low-income women to move for economic reasons. In general, welfare policy appears to have a much larger effect on residential location because of its relationship to employment than because of benefit differences between states.