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Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? Evidence from Germany

Stichnoth, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...

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Should welfare administration be centralized or decentralized? Evidence from a policy experiment

Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration …. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies are bound to central … of both types of organizations. Compared to centralized organization, decentralized organization of welfare …

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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical...

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Housing and health

Angel, Stefan; Bittschi, Benjamin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Nevertheless, there is scant empirical evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. The literature identifies two different pathways by which housing deprivation affects health, namely,...

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Temporary extra jobs for immigrants: Merging lane to employment or dead-end road in welfare?

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

We evaluate the effects of the most frequently used German welfare-to-work program on the employment chances of … immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and … effects are more adverse for natives, but the program does not help otherwise identical immigrants to leave the welfare system …

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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions: an effective tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?

Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In … practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on … sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is …

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Der Zugang von Arbeitnehmern in den Bezug von Arbeitslosengeld II

Aldashev, Alisher; Fitzenberger, Bernd - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Diese Arbeit untersucht die erwerbsfÄahig eingestuften Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II, die mindestens einmal Arbeitslosengeld II im dritten Quartal 2006 bezogen haben. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass 16% der Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II im dritten Quartal 2006 während des Zeitraums 2000...

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Short-term training programs for immigrants: do effects differ from natives and why?

Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might …

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School entrance recommendation: A question of age or development?

Horstschräer, Julia; Muehler, Grit - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

According to school entry regulations in most countries, the composition of school entrance cohorts is determined by a fixed cutoff date. This procedure creates inter-cohort differences in age and development which can severely influence educational trajectories. Developmental examinations at...

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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems

Kraus, Margit - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...

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