Studies on pre-welfare reform provide mixed evidence whether it benefits recipients to leave welfare to work ((Loeb and Corcoran, 2001). According to Grogger (2003) benefits reductions or termination might be the incentive for the recipient to find employment and leave the welfare program more quickly and severe sanctions might increase the possibly of obtaining employment. Research in the early 1990s found that experimental assessments of welfare-to-work transitions did not gain a large increase in economic resources for the single mothers; however requiring work participation or job preparation activities could remove the mothers from the welfare program and into the work force (Turner, Danziger and Seefeldt,
Studies on pre-welfare reform provide mixed evidence whether it benefits recipients to leave welfare to work ((Loeb and Corcoran, 2001). According to Grogger (2003) benefits reductions or termination might be the incentive for the recipient to find employment and leave the welfare program more quickly and severe sanctions might increase the possibly of obtaining employment. Research in the early 1990s found that experimental assessments of welfare-to-work transitions did not gain a large increase in economic resources for the single mothers; however requiring work participation or job preparation activities could remove the mothers from the welfare program and into the work force (Turner, Danziger and Seefeldt,