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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? : a microsimulation study for Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage of € 7.5 per hour on the basis of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726086
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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine propensity score matching with a discrete-time hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726098
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"Marginal employment": stepping stone or dead end? : evaluating the German experience
Freier, Ronny (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003618455
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Beschäftigungsförderung und Einkommenssicherung im Niedriglohnbereich : Wege und Irrwege
Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003618503
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed : long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003945974
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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962265
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Marginal employment, unemployment duration and job match quality
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012
In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up "marginal employment" up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. Marginal employment can be considered as a wage subsidy as it lowers labour costs for firms owing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579318
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A wealth tax on the rich to bring down public debt? : Revenue and distributional effects of a capital levy
Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2011
The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487901
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Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland : Bestandsaufnahme und Bewertung der mikroökonomischen Evaluationsergebnisse
Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2005
Förderung von Beschäftigung. Die quantitativ wichtigsten Programme der AAMP in Deutschland waren traditionell die Förderung der … Deutschland bewertet. Die Darstellung wird ergänzt durch die Einbeziehung der Ergebnisse einiger internationaler … Evaluationsstudien zu Instrumenten der AAMP, die zunehmend auch in Deutschland Bedeutung erlangen, für die aber hierzulande derzeit noch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003136025
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Von der Finanzierung der Arbeitslosigkeit zur Förderung von Arbeit : Analysen und Handlungsempfehlungen zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Hagen, Tobias; Steiner, Viktor - 2000 - 1. Aufl.
Die Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland ist angesichts der hohen Kosten, der Hinweise auf geringe oder gar fehlende … werden zum einen Handlungsoptionen für eine effizientere Ausgestaltung der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland abgeleitet. Zum …
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