employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …

Sabbaticals stellen ein wichtiges Element der lebensverlaufsorientierten Arbeitsmarkt und Sozialpolitik dar. Sie …, berufliche Umorientierung, Kinderbetreuung, Pflege, Erholung oder Freizeit. Derzeit können Sabbaticals in Deutschland nur im … kann. Dazu werden auf der einen Seite Probleme und Handlungsfelder in der bestehenden Regelungspraxis in Deutschland …

We have tracked the scripts and life course of young women and men from 2007 to 2012. Today the interviewees are 21 to …

This paper analyses annual, age-specific retirement rates in Germany between 1971 and 1991. The time-series data show … asserts that high unemployment caused early retirement (push factors/demand side). This study finds that institutional … eligibility rules are strongly correlated with annual, age-specific retirement rates. In contrast, aggregate unemployment cannot …

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …

normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that … employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early …

means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative reforms that involve employment subsidies to stimulate participation …