Welfare reform in California : results of the 1998 all-county implementation survey / / Patricia A. Ebener, Jacob Alex Klerman |
Autore | Ebener Patricia A (Patricia Anne), <1949-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Monica, CA, : Rand, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (62 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KlermanJacob Alex
RothElizabeth A |
Soggetto topico |
Welfare recipients - Employment - California
Public welfare - California Evaluation research (Social action programs) - California |
ISBN | 0-8330-4338-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""Preface""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Summary""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Glossary""; ""Introduction""; ""Status of Planning and Phase-In of CalWORKs Operations""; ""Organizational and Administrative Changes""; ""CountiesÌ Views of Successful Strategies, Implementation Problems, and What Helps and Hinders Implementation""; ""Conclusions""; ""ACIS Questionnaire"" |
Altri titoli varianti |
Results of the 1998 all-county implementation survey
Rand statewide CalWORKs evaluation |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809916003321 |
Ebener Patricia A (Patricia Anne), <1949-> | ||
Santa Monica, CA, : Rand, 1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Welfare reform in California : early results from the impact analysis / / Jacob A. Klerman ... [et al.] |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Monica, Calif., : Rand, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (147 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.5/8/09794 |
Altri autori (Persone) | KlermanJacob Alex |
Soggetto topico |
Welfare recipients - Employment - California
Public welfare - California |
ISBN | 0-8330-3596-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Background; Objectives and Conceptual Model; Pre-CalWORKs Welfare Reforms; The CalWORKs Reforms; Other Government Policies; The Economy; Methods; Random Assignment; Nonexperimental Program Evaluation; Simulation; Data; Scope of This Report; Organization of the Report; 2. Program Participation; Overview of Descriptive Findings; Meeting Federal Participation Rates; Components Used to Determine Participation Rates
How California Has Fared in Meeting All-Families Work Activity Participation Rates How California Has Fared in Meeting Two-Parent Work Activity Participation Rates; How California Compares with the Rest of the Nation in Meeting Federal Work Activity Participation Rate Requirements; Near-Universal, Immediate Participation in CALWORKS WTW Activities for 32 Hours per Week; How Many Hours Are Welfare Recipients Participating in the Activities?; Of Those Current Welfare Recipients Who Are Working, How Much Are They Working?; Possible Explanations for Descriptive Findings The Effects of County Welfare Programs The Effects of the Composition of California's Welfare Caseload; The Effects of Pre-CalWORKs Reforms and CalWORKs Legislative Changes to the Benefit Structure; The Effects of Other CalWORKs Legislative Changes; The Effects of the Economy; 3. The Caseload; Overview of Descriptive Findings; Caseload Trends in California; Aggregate Statewide Trends; Disaggregated Trends by Subgroups; The Effects of Changes in Population and Composition on California's Caseload; California's Caseload Trends Relative to the Rest of the Nation Possible Explanations for the Descriptive Findings What Might Explain the Magnitude and Timing of the Caseload Decline in California?; What Might Explain the Smaller Caseload Decline in California Compared with the Rest of the Nation?; 4. Outcomes for Leavers; Overview of Descriptive Findings; Return to Welfare; Employment, Earnings, and Earnings Growth Among Leavers; How Welfare Leavers Are Faring in Terms of Any Employment and Earnings Growth; How Leavers Are Faring in Terms of Full-Time Work and Household Resources; Given Employment Levels, How Are Leavers Supporting Themselves? Entering Cohorts versus Leaving Cohorts Medi-Cal Take-Up Among Leavers; Outcomes for All Single-Parent Households; Possible Explanations for the Descriptive Findings; Decreases in Return to Cash Aid, Increases in Employment and Earnings, and Decreases in Poverty Rates; Increases in Medi-Cal Take-up Rates; 5. Conclusions and Next Steps; Conclusions; What Has Happened to Outcomes of Interest?; What Caused These Outcomes?; Were the Changes Worth the Cost?; Next Steps; Appendix A. Overview of Factors That Might Affect Outcomes; B. Data Sources; C. Analytic Methods D. Results of the Policy Simulation Conducted on Participation Rates |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910220083003321 |
Santa Monica, Calif., : Rand, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Welfare reform in California : state and county implementation of CalWORKs in the first year / / Gail L. Zellman ... [et al.] |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Monica, CA, : Rand, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (27 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) | ZellmanGail |
Soggetto topico |
Welfare recipients - Employment - California
Public welfare - California |
ISBN |
0-8330-4337-4
0-585-23508-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""PREFACE""; ""FIGURES""; ""TABLES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Background""; ""Objective""; ""ORGANIZATIONS HAVE CHANGED IN RESPONSE TO THE EXPANDED MISSION OF CalWORKs, DESPITE LIMITED TIME FOR PLANNING""; ""Implementing CalWORKs Entails a Profound Expansion of the Organizational Mission""; ""Late Legislation Limited the Time Available for County-Level Planning""; ""As a Result, Counties Have Been Forced to Implement with Only Limited Planning""; ""Counties Are Using Different Strategies to Deal with Key Implementation Requirements""
""Running Eligibility and Welfare-to-Work Activities""""Coordinating Operations with Other Agencies and Service Providers""; ""Apportioning New Agency Responsibility to Staff""; ""Increasing the Use of Outsourcing""; ""IMPLEMENTATION IS UNDER WAY, BUT RECIPIENT COMPLIANCE IS LOW""; ""Implementation Is Under Way but Is Far from Complete""; ""High Job-Placement Rates Mask a Noncompliance Problem""; ""Although Counties Are Still Developing Sanction Programs, Many Are Concerned They Will Be Ineffective When in Place""; ""COUNTIES CURRENTLY HAVE SUFFICIENT FUNDS, BUT THIS MAY CHANGE"" ""The Counties Currently Have Sufficient Funds""""The Shift to a Single TANF Block Grant""; ""Other Funding Streams""; ""Declining Caseloads""; ""Carryover Funds""; ""How Much Do These Factors Affect Per-Case Funding?""; ""CountiesÌ Fiscal Status Could Change Dramatically""; ""Internal Factors""; ""External Factors""; ""As a Result, the Responses of County Welfare Agencies Vary""; ""ACHIEVING EARNINGS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE SELF- SUFFICIENCY BEFORE TIME LIMITS EXPIRE IS A CHALLENGE""; ""Under CalWORKs, Work Pays""; ""Moving Recipients to Self-Sufficiency Is Challenging"" ""Counties Need to Work to Meet the Challenge""""IMPLICATIONS FOR FOLLOW-ON ACTIVITIES""; ""Theme 1: Organizational Change""; ""Theme 2: Implementation and Noncompliance""; ""Theme 3: Sufficiency of Funding""; ""Theme 4: Transition to Self-Sufficiency"" |
Altri titoli varianti |
State and county implementation of CalWORKs in the first year
Rand statewide CalWORKS evaluation |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827274803321 |
Santa Monica, CA, : Rand, 1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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