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Similar to many other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy made a paradigm shift towards activation policy …
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Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift towards …
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In der Öffentlichkeit wird seit einiger Zeit verstärkt eine grundlegende Reform des Sozialsystems in Deutschland … zahlreiche Kritikpunkte am bestehenden System der Grundsicherung in Deutschland. Ein wesentlicher Grund hierfür ist die … bestehenden Sozialsystems in Deutschland, sowie um teilweise experimentelle Studien zu Grundeinkommenskonzepten in anderen Ländern …
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This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the...
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When TANF replaced AFDC in 1996 the marginal subsidy for state welfare spending was eliminated. This paper exploits data from a period in the history of AFDC when the structure of federal subsidies and legislative changes allow us to estimate not only the price and income elasticities of federal...
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When TANF replaced AFDC in 1996 the marginal subsidy for state welfare spending was eliminated. This paper exploits data from a period in the history of AFDC when the structure of federal subsidies and legislative changes allow us to estimate not only the price and income elasticities of federal...
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This paper reviews the dramatic and widely noted developments in the German labor market in the past decade and surveys the most plausible reasons for these changes. Alternative hypotheses are compared and contrasted. I argue that the labor market reforms associated with the Agenda 2010 – the...
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in Germany. Our findings are consistent with a stable demand for labor, especially in western Germany, implying that …
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