Showing 1 - 10 of 424
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003649903
This article considers the complexity of ea rly employment life-courses focusing on the heterogeneity by gender and education. We construct 7-year-long early employment trajectories by using a unique longitudinal da taset that combines administrative records on employment episodes and survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014976
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003516082
This paper examines the consequences of a government mimicking the policy of its competitor by studying the introduction of the welfare state in 19th century Germany. The reform conducted by the conservative government targeted blue-collar workers and aimed to reduce the success of the socialist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495012
Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056561
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000833206
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428345
Does access to education facilitate the emergence of a human capital elite from which social activists, and thus, social change can emerge? Assembling a city-level panel of the political, intellectual, and economic elite throughout German history, we find that the opening of schools providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481086
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410243
market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency …' institutional detail on the nature of employment protection in Portugal; and, second, and more substantively, by offering a detailed … analysis of the process of labor djustment in Portugal, benchmarked to other-country experience. The latter exercise based on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428254