Jill Marie Gunderson and Julie L. Hotchkiss
Working Paper 2004-12
May 2004
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This paper uses a unique personnel data set to explore job separation behavior among welfare hires. Our results indicate that welfare hires are no less stable than similar nonwelfare hires; however, time until separation does differ across welfare status by reason for separation. We also found that the presence of a mentoring program will increase time until separation for both welfare and nonwelfare hires.
JEL classification: I38, J24, J64
Key words: TANF, welfare, job search, job separation
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Please address questions regarding content to Jill Marie Gunderson, ERS Group, 4901 Tower Court, Tallahassee, Florida 32303, 850-562-1211 ext. 140, 850-562-3838 (fax), jgunderson@ersgroup.com, or Julie L. Hotchkiss, Georgia State University and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Research Department, 1000 Peachtree Street N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30309-2713, 404-498-8198, jhotchkiss@gsu.edu.