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Are single mothers finding jobs without displacing other workers?
Robert I. Lerman Caroline Ratcliffe
Economist, Urban Institute,
Washington, DC. E-mail: blerman@ui.urban.org
Despite a large influx of single mothers into the labor force following the passage of welfare reform in 1996, metropolitan areas generated more than enough jobs to employ these new entrants without deleterious effects on competing groups of workers
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