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This paper provides an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labor market and social policy in Germany … study points at the changes in Germany's status- and occupation-oriented unemployment benefit regime that has been …
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Mit der Einführung von Arbeitslosengeld II wurde auch die behördliche Zuständigkeit für die Grundsicherung einer grundlegenden Reorganisation unterzogen. Während in der überwiegenden Mehrheit der Kommunen in Form der sogenannten Arbeitsgemeinschaften eine Mischverwaltung aus Bundesagentur...
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Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to reduce work incentives for lower income classes and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual income concepts. This paper analyzes how work...
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In Germany, inequality of net equivalized income increased noticeably in the first half of the new millennium. We aim …
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In this article, I study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the … persistence rates and the absolute level of structural state dependence are higher in Eastern Germany than in Western Germany. I …
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In this article, we study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the … rates are much higher in Eastern Germany than in Western Germany, absolute levels of structural state dependence however are …
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Von dem vierten Gesetz für moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt (Hartz IV), das mit dem 1. Januar 2005 in Kraft trat, erhoffte sich der Gesetzgeber eine Stärkung der Anreize, Arbeit anzubieten. Dieser Aufsatz analysiert die Beschäftigungswirkungen einer Senkung staatlicher...
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We present first estimates of rates of non-take-up for social assistance in Germany after the implementation of major …
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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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