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We study the long-term impacts of the Canada Self-Sufficiency Project Plus program, which
randomly offered intensive employment support services to long-term welfare recipients eligible
for temporary work subsidies. We link study participants to their federal tax and employeremployee
matched records for up to 20 years after random assignment. The intensive services
treatment led to a 20-27 percent increase in participants鈥� annual earnings over the 20-year
period and increases in full-time employment throughout the first decade post-intervention.
As possible mechanisms, individuals engage in more job search and job-to-job transitions and
obtain jobs paying higher wages and in higher paying firms.
