Cities Matter: Shifting the Focus of Welfare Reform

Katz, Bruce; Allen, Katherine

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“…However, these results should be treated with caution as they are based on data from the earliest TANF leavers and may not be representative of patterns in the later years of reform. In fact, many authors have noted that those exiting TANF in the early months of reform may experience less difficulty in transitioning from welfare to work than those exiting more recently (Allen and Kirby, 2000;Born, Ovwigho, Leavitt, and Cordero, 2001;Brookings Institution, 1999;Brown, 1997;Heinrich, 1999;Katz and Allen, 2001;Loprest and Zedlewski, 1999). The fact that rates of TANF exits in Baltimore City were much lower than in the other jurisdictions during the first two years of reform may also help explain why Baltimore City residents had lower recidivism risk in the present analyses (Born, Ovwigho, and Cordero, 2000).…”

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Returns to Welfare Under Welfare Reform

Born¹,

Ovwigho²,

Cordero³

2002

Administration in Social Work

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The federally-imposed lifetime limit on cash assistance receipt compels program administrators to examine returns to welfare after an exit. We explore recidivism among a random sample of 2,665 Maryland families who left welfare between October 1996 and December 1997. Using administrative data, we compare the demographic characteristics, welfare histories, and work histories of recidivists and non-recidivists. Results indicate that most families do not return to welfare within a year. However, almost one-third do return, often within the first 30 days. This rarely investigated "administrative churning" phenomenon is important because of the federal time limit, the valuable agency resources which are consumed in handling churning cases and the possible negative consequences of churning on family well-being.

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Returns to Welfare Under Welfare Reform

Born¹,

Ovwigho²,

Cordero³

2002

Administration in Social Work

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“…Germany is Europe’s largest recipient of Syrians, with a total population of 867,585 (Statistisches Bundesamt, 2022). Although Germany adopts a highly decentralized policy of refugee dispersal (Katz et al, 2016), Berlin is home to the largest Syrian community in Germany, with an estimated number of around 47,075 (Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg, 2021). These numbers are largely attributable to Germany’s initial open door policy, which promised protection for asylum seekers irrespective of the Dublin regulation.…”

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“It gave us a thrill”: Emotions, exile, and narratives of (dis)engagement among activists from Syria

Selim

2023

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Building on qualitative interviews with Syrians who participated in the anti-regime movement of 2011 and now live in Berlin and Oslo, the article unpacks the ways that these contexts affected participants’ decision to continue or disrupt their activism in exile. By analyzing their activist trajectories from revolution to exile and drawing on the concept of emotional resonance, I reveal how Berlin and Oslo provided participants with different environments when dealing with their past experiences of participation. I show that while the mobilizing structures of Berlin provided spaces for activism that resonated with the emotional needs of activists, enabling them to continue activism on behalf of Syria, the mobilizing structures of Oslo failed to produce spaces that could respond to activists’ needs, playing a part in their disengagement there. The article extends the concept of emotional resonance and adds to the study of Syrian diasporas and emotions in the Syrian uprising.

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“…5, 16). Beneficiaries exited the welfare rolls much more slowly in urban areas: the top 89 urban counties have 33 percent of the population but 58 percent of the welfare beneficiaries (Katz and Allen 2001). Poverty has not declined with the shrinking of the welfare rolls: Sawhill (2001) estimates that over 700,000 families were worse off in 1999 than in 1995.…”

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Employment 'Miracles' : A Critical Comparison of the Dutch, Scandinavian, Swiss, Australian and Irish Cases versus Germany and the US

Becker¹,

Schwartz²

2005

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A m s t e r d a m U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s c h a n g i n g w e l f a r e s t a t e s employment 'miracles' CHANGING WELFARE STATE SProcesses of socio-economic change (individualising society and globalising economics and politics) cause large problems for modern welfare states. Welfare states, organised on the level of nation-states and built on one or the other form of national solidarity, are increasingly confronted with, for instance, fiscal problems, difficulties to control costs, and the unintended use of welfare programs. Such problems -generally speaking -raise the issue of sustainability because they tend to undermine the legitimacy of the programs of the welfare state and in the end induce the necessity of change, be it the complete abolishment of programs, retrenchment of programs, or attempts to preserve programs by modernising them. This series of studies on welfare states focuses on the changing institutions and programs of modern welfare states. These changes are the product of external pressures on welfare states, for example because of the economic and political consequences of globalisation or individualisation, or result from the internal, political or institutional dynamics of welfare arrangements.By studying the development of welfare state arrangements in different countries, in different institutional contexts, or by comparing developments between countries or different types of welfare states, this series hopes to enlarge the body of knowledge on the functioning and development of welfare states and its programs. The publication of this book is made possible with a grant of the gakFoundation (Stichting Instituut gak, Hilversum). All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. editors of the series ContentsPreface 9 I ntroduction: Miracles, Mirages and Markets 11Herman Schwartz and Uwe Becker PrefaceThe very positive economic and particularly employment development that took place in the decade up to 2001 (or even longer) in Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia and, since the second half of the 1990s, Finland and Sweden has been at the centre of much recent discussion in comparative political economy. Because this development contrasts markedly with near stagnation in France, Germany and Italy, it has been characterised in terms of 'miracles' and 'models'. The Netherlands and Denmark attracted the most attention because their strong employment growth and employment stabilisation at very high levels, respectively, occurred in the framework of welfare systems that are still comparatively generous and that clearly differ from the usa and the uk. In the latter two countries, high employment and low unemployment went together with levels of inequality and poverty not (yet...

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Cities Matter: Shifting the Focus of Welfare Reform

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Returns to Welfare Under Welfare Reform

Returns to Welfare Under Welfare Reform

“It gave us a thrill”: Emotions, exile, and narratives of (dis)engagement among activists from Syria

Employment 'Miracles' : A Critical Comparison of the Dutch, Scandinavian, Swiss, Australian and Irish Cases versus Germany and the US

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