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标题：Welfare Reform in Agricultural California
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作者：Green, Richard D. ; Martin, Philip L. ; Taylor, J. Edward 等
期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness
印刷版ISSN：0738-8950
出版年度：2003
页码：169-183
出版社：Journal of Agribusiness
摘要：When welfare reforms were enacted in 1996, a higher than average percentage of residents in the agricultural heartland of California, the San Joaquin Valley, received cash assistance. Average annual unemployment rates during the 1990s ranged from 12% to 20%, and 15% to 20% of residents in major farming counties received cash benefits. This analysis develops and estimates a two-equation cross-sectionally correlated and timewise autoregressive model to test the hypothesis that in agricultural areas, seasonal work, low earnings, and high unemployment, as well as few entry-level jobs that offer wages and benefits equivalent to welfare benefits, promote welfare use and limit the potential of local labor markets to absorb ex-welfare recipients.
关键词：cross-sectionally correlated and timewise autoregressive model;farm workers;immigration;welfare reform