Unintended Migration Consequences of US Welfare Reform

Snarr, Hal W.; Friesner, Daniel; Burkey, Mark L.

doi:10.1016/s0313-5926(11)50035-9

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“…The labor loss can be offset by hired agribusinesses, managers and workers, as well as the utilization of technologies for higher-productivity (Li et al, 2013). Thus, a rise in productivity can be observed (Snarr et al, 2011). Second, TRSR separates the contracting rights and management rights, enables farmers to keep the contract right of the allocated land and pass on the management right by investing the land in a rural cooperative for shares (Wang and Zhang, 2017).…”

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Assessing the impact of off-farm employment on land efficiency in different patterns: Field evidence from post-reform China

Zhao

Pei

Jiang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The three rights separation reform (TRSR) has laid a concrete foundation institutionally to guide the well-ordered transfer of farmland and promoting the development of urbanization. With the new economics of labour migration (hereinafter referred to as the NELM) theory as the analytic basis, this empirical research investigates the potential ramifications of off-farm employment on land efficiency with household-based survey data from four provinces in China after TRSR. Unlike existing studies, we delve into how the effects are manifested differently among the types of off-farm employment by adopting an ordinary least squares (OLS) model and a two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimator. It provides evidence that migration positively affect land efficiency significantly, whereas a negative impact of local off-farm employment on land efficiency is observed, which distinct this study from previous findings. From the perspective of policy-making, land administrators should realize that off-farm employment differentiation is an important factor affecting land efficiency, and therefore needs to be fully considered in policy-making. Meanwhile, the establishment of local labor markets and favorable policies that stimulate productive technologies are needed.

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Assessing the impact of off-farm employment on land efficiency in different patterns: Field evidence from post-reform China

Zhao

Pei

Jiang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…High unemployment in July lowers fe-male employment roughly eight months later in March, but higher unemployment 15 months earlier (in the month of December) raises it. Both of these are possibly due to work trigger time limits that typically range from having to work immediately to being allowed to wait 24 months before securing work (Snarr, Friesner, & Burkey, 2011). With regard to the variables that account for within-region spatial heterogeneity, past unemployment in adjacent states has a large positive net effect on young adult males but a large negative net effect on females in the same cohort.…”

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“…We foresee exploring these and other differences between the cohorts in this study and others as an important for future research. For example, after welfare was reformed, participants must work to continue receiving assistance or face partial or full family sanctions (Snarr, Friesner & Burkey 2011). However, Table 1 suggests an alternative explanation may be at play.…”

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Does the Minimum Wage Make Young Adult Labor More Attractive to Firms?

Snarr

Romero

2014

International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development

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Adverse effects of minimum wage policy on labor markets materialize only if the new rate is binding. Annual data from the Current Population Survey indicate that the minimum wage is effectively non-binding for young adults (19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29) who have at least one year of college and are not enrolled in school. Hence, a minimum wage hike would have no effect on young adult workers… or does it? The authors investigate this using dynamic panel data that accounts for spatial heterogeneity, which must be controlled for because minimum wage coefficients are biased otherwise (Allegretto, Dube, and Reich 2011). The authors find that accounting for spatial heterogeneity and the inertia that is present in labor market variables affects the results dramatically. Average unemployment in adjacent states has a large net positive cumulative impact on young adult male employment but a large negative cumulative effect on young adult female employment. Though both cohorts are sensitive to market wages and weekly earnings, males are more geographically mobile while female employment is negatively linked to having children, poverty, welfare participation, and urbanity but positively associated with welfare reform. While the minimum wage was insignificant in the young adult male employment model, its anticipatory effect is associated with higher young adult female employment. This is perhaps due to firms substituting teen (16)(17)(18) labor with young adult females who possess longer employment tenure, slightly better job skills, and greater personal responsibility.

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“…The most critical finding regarding the pessimistic view of migration is the curse of "brain drain." For example, Snarr et al (2011) reported that educated and young migrants are considered talented people who mostly contribute to production sectors, including agriculture. Therefore, their migration causes efficient outcome loss in production sectors.…”

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Impact of migration on household consumption expenditures in Bangladesh using the coarsened exact matching (CEM) approach

Hossain

Gani

2022

AJEB

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PurposeThe study aims to examine the impact of migration on household consumption expenditures in Bangladesh.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses coarsened exact matching methods to examine the causal impact between migration and household welfare using the dataset on Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2010 on 12,213 households.FindingsThe study reveals that migration has a positive impact on household welfare improvement through increases in their consumption expenditures. Households with migration status are found to spend more on food, non-food (housing, durable goods, fuel, cosmetics, cleaning, transport, clothing, taxes, insurance, recreation) items and medical. However, the authors do not find any evidence of impacts on education expenditures.Research limitations/implicationsThe availability of panel data and the use of other variables (e.g. household investment expenditures, household budget allocation for agricultural input expenses, etc.) would have been able to provide vivid results.Originality/valueThis paper adds to the Bangladeshi migration literature by offering a novel empirical assessment of the Bangladeshi migrants and its impact on household welfare by drawing upon a recently published, nationally representative sample of Bangladeshi households.

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Unintended Migration Consequences of US Welfare Reform

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Assessing the impact of off-farm employment on land efficiency in different patterns: Field evidence from post-reform China

Assessing the impact of off-farm employment on land efficiency in different patterns: Field evidence from post-reform China

Does the Minimum Wage Make Young Adult Labor More Attractive to Firms?

Impact of migration on household consumption expenditures in Bangladesh using the coarsened exact matching (CEM) approach

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