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Campos, Nauro F.; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2006

Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...

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Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform

Tekin, Erdal - 2004

Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America?s Families), this paper investigates the impact of child care subsidies on the standard work (i.e., work performed during the traditional work hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. through Monday and Friday)...

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Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe

Matsaganis, Manos; Levy, Horacio; Mercader-Prats, Magda; … - 2005

The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the...

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Die Wirkung der Hartz-Reform im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung

Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2006

The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns …

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Reassessing the wage penalty for temps in Germany

Jahn, Elke J. - 2008

As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …

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Reforming German labor market institutions: a dual path to flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

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Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf: wie konsistent sind die Reformen?

Eichhorst, Werner; Thode, Eric - 2009

Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland … dem zum Teil entgegen. Insgesamt befindet sich Deutschland in einer durchaus widersprüchlichen Übergangssituation. …

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A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany

Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2004

Over the last year the German government has introduced a comprehensive set of labor market policy reforms, the so-called Hartz reforms, which aim at a significant reduction of unemployment. To this end, (a) many of the existing instruments of active labor market policy are modified...

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Do Financial Incentives Promote the Employment of the Disabled?

Verick, Sher - 2004

In October 1999 the unemployment rate of people with severe disabilities in Germany was more than double that of the …

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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on …

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