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Title: Scapegoating Poor Women: An Analysis of Welfare Reform.
Author: Nancy E. Rose
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: 34Issue: 1Page: 143

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Collection of studies by Urban Institute scholars. ... Read more

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Indispensible both for political science classes and policymakers
This is a very unusual and valuable book.First, it is a rare example of a legislatively-mandated review of a major policy change.The sponsor of the legislation mandating the review was none other than Barack Obama, then an Illinois State Senator, and the subject was the application in Illinois of federal welfare reform.Second, the studies included in the book reflect a methodological breakthrough by focusing on individuals who were affected by reforms, in addition to statistics that review the experience as a whole.Professor Lewis richly demonstrates that a "person-centered strategy is within reach" for researching the effectiveness of policy initiatives.We come to know certain individuals, but fortunately this is not a string of colorful, unrelated anecdotes.Lewis dares to categorize the individuals surveyed into types and in doing so, draws a common-sense conclusion that had eluded the polemicists of the left and the right, that a reform will have differing impacts on different kinds of people.Summarizing this approach in a brief review such as this may raise the question that the approach is circular, that people are grouped not because of their characteristics, but because of their differing reactions.Read the studies, and you will see that author avoided that trap.Each and every study includes some surprising results, which, I imagine, is exactly why State Senator Obama wanted this work to be done.This book is a ray of hope that in a polarized democracy, dispassionate scholars can shed light on policy initiatives when they focus their attention on real individuals, and not on the cartoon versions that illustrate our political rhetoric. ... Read more

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In order to analyze the economic effects of various policy proposals for reforming the welfare state a model has been developed called MIMIC. The structure of this model is presented in the first part of this book. The model combines various modern labour market theories with a detailed description of relevant labour market institutions in an applied general equilibrium context. The second part of the volume contains an elaborate presentation of the simulation results of MIMIC, such as various tax policies, a reduction in benefits or the official minimum wages, individualization of the tax and social security system and the introduction of negative income tax. The model has proved to be a unique instrument for policy evaluation for the Netherlands. ... Read more

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