comprehensive immigration reform, particularly the components related to the path to citizenship and access to public benefits. …Immigration policy continues to be at the forefront of policy discussions, and the use of welfare benefits by … immigrants has been hotly debated. In 1996, Congress enacted welfare reform legislation (PRWORA), which denied the use of most …

German economy since 1995: 1) Germany offshores more intensively than other advanced countries; 2) The increase in … competitiveness and in the exports/production ratio occurs before the implementation of the labour market reform, and this comes with … both higher inequality and higher unemployment; 3) The implementation of the reform reduces unemployment, but also …

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

Member States. Despite limitations of count data on reform events, the evidence permits a number of interesting insights. The …

reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …

for reform and its main principles. As results of programme evaluation studies post-reform have become available just now … positive effects. On balance, therefore, the reform seems to be moving the German labour market in the right direction. …

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 … interdependencies between the two types of crises, feedbacks between the two types of reform, the use of alternative measures of …

reform due to political constraints, the prevalence of ideology, and agency issues within those bureaucracies concerned with …

-of-youngest-child exemptions – as a source of quasi-experimental variation in maternal employment. The 1996 welfare reform law empowered states to …

The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction …