caa a22 4500 465754511 CHVBK 20180323111843.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19901201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02717876 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02717876 Public assistance and job search behavior of the rural poor-evidence from the mississippi delta [Elektronische Daten] [Tekie Fessehatzion, Bichaka Fayissa] This study explores whether prolonged welfare experience reduces the job search commitment of the unemployed. More specifically, an attempt is made to determine whether participation in a government assistance program induces the unemployed to prolong their job search activities, either through reduced search effort or by asking a higher reservation (acceptance) wage. The data were obtained from a semistructured interview with 120 food stamp recipients participating in a pilot workfare project in Coahoma County, Mississippi. The interview questionnaire was designed to elicit the degree to which there was a relationship between welfare use and commitment to job search activities. The most important finding of the study was that in at least one economically depressed community, extended participation in a public assistance program did not appear to have a significant impact on the job search behavior of the unemployed. However, as important as this finding is, the small size of the sample and the uniqueness of the county (77 percent black) limit the applicability of the results to other rural communities across the nation. Therefore, there is a need to replicate and expand the study, utilizing a much larger sample representing a cross section of the counties in Mississippi and elsewhere in the United States. Springer, 1990 Fessehatzion Tekie aut Fayissa Bichaka aut The Review of Black Political Economy Springer-Verlag 18/3(1990-12-01), 79-91 0034-6446 18:3<79 1990 18 12114 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02717876 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02717876 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fessehatzion Tekie aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fayissa Bichaka aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Review of Black Political Economy Springer-Verlag 18/3(1990-12-01), 79-91 0034-6446 18:3<79 1990 18 12114 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer