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Klaus Wälde zeigen, dass die Hartz-IV-Gesetze keinen erwähnenswerten Beitrag zur Reduktion der Arbeitslosigkeit lieferten …After the Hartz reforms of 2003-2005, unemployment in Germany has gone down significantly. Using a structural … less than 0.1 percentage point of the decline in the observed unemployment rate. A substantial degree of influence, to the …
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monthly transitions among employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. Immigrants are found to be first fired and first … hired over the business cycle, and the aggregate unemployment gap is caused by immigrants' higher rates in the unemployment …
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Loneliness poses a serious health risk: Along with negatively impacting life quality, it can even shorten the life span. This Weekly Report investigates loneliness in Germany using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2021 on loneliness. The analyses highlight the prevalence of three facets of...
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Food banks are returning to the spotlight as their use increases due to the coronavirus pandemic and the influx of Ukrainian refugees to Germany. The current discussion is focused on whether the food banks can handle the increasing number of users as well as the financial and organizational...
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Given the high benefits of early education, it is particularly noteworthy that new studies of child development during and shortly after the coronavirus pandemic show negative effects on children. This is true for cognitive and non-cognitive skills as well as mental health. Children from low SES...
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Agesichts des Klimawandels und anderer ökologischer Probleme finden die Positionender Degrowth- und Postwachstumsansätze vermehrt Anhänger:innen. Allerdings habendiese wachstumskritischen Ansätze viele Probleme. Die Wachstumskritik ist zwar in vielenBereichen berechtigt, die Schrumpfung oder...
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In seinem jüngsten Beitrag im Wirtschaftsdienst "Kein Wachstum ist auch keine Lösung - eine Kritik an Degrowth- und Postwachstumsansätzen" greift Fabian Lindner eine essenziell wichtige Debatte auf: Können die Ziele der Pariser Klimakonferenz - die Beschränkung der Erderwärmung auf nicht...
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Das Problem der Altersarmut ist in Deutschland in jüngster Zeit in den sozialpolitischen Fokus gerückt. In starkem Kontrast zu bislang vorliegenden empirischen Arbeiten behauptet ein aktuell veröffentlichtes Gutachten des wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundeswirtschaftsministerium, dass sich...
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years later. This illustrates that the devaluation of periods of training and unemployment under pension law leads to …
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The total number of dependent employees in Germany has increased by more than four million since the financial crisis. Part of this growth took place in the low-wage sector. Analyses based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, which in 2017 for the first time include detailed information on...
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