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Sick leave and medical leave in the United States : a categorization and recent trends
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2024
provide a categorization of the different paid leave concepts such as sick leave, medical leave, or temporary disability … benefits. In the last part, we discuss implications of the lack of access to paid sick and medical leave benefits. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014511708
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Financial Incentives to Work Decomposed: The Finnish Case
Kotamäki, Mauri; Ollonqvist, Joonas - 2018
that taxation and unemployment benefits account the largest shares of the mean PTR. Another finding is that PTRs vary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503072
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Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil : an analysis of BPC : continuous cash benefit programme
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Diniz, Déborah; … - 2015
The paper presents an analysis of the Continuous Cash Benefit Programme (BPC, which stands for Benefício de Prestação Continuada in Portuguese), an unconditional cash transfer to the elderly or to extremely poor individuals with disabilities. The information used in the assessment stems from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039122
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Alleviating unemployment traps in Finland: Can the efficiency-equity trade-off be avoided?
Honkanen, Pertti; Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2007
benefits, so that the income dependence of some of the benefits is reduced. This reform redistributes income to the poor and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502978
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023
Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427523
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Wage subsidies, work incentives, and the reform of the Austrian welfare system
Steiner, Viktor; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2010
We analyze the labor supply and income effects of a needs-based minimum benefit system ("Bedarfsorientierte Mindestsicherung") to be introduced in Austria by the end of this/beginning of next year. The aim of this reform is to reduce poverty as well as increasing employment rates of recipients...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664559
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Mindestlöhne, Lohnsubventionen und Einkommenssicherung im Wohlfahrtsstaat : Verteilungswirkungen von Reformalternativen für Deutschland
Steiner, Viktor - 2010
Staatliche Instrumente zur Einkommenssicherung im Niedriglohnbereich durch "Kombilohn-Modelle" existieren auch in Deutschland schon seit längerem und wurden im Zuge der jüngsten Arbeitsmarktreformen ausgeweitet. Aktuelle Reformvorschläge für Deutschland zielen zum einen auf die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796604
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Beschäftigungswirkungen von Lohnsubventionen und Mindestlöhnen : zur Reform des Niedriglohnsektors in Deutschland
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2011
In diesem Beitrag werden die Beschäftigungswirkungen von Lohnsubventionen und eines Mindestlohnes für Deutschland analysiert. Studien zum Mindestlohn im Baugewerbe und Simulationen zu einem allgemeinen Mindestlohn weisen einhellig auf Beschäftigungsverluste durch einen gesetzlichen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008905958
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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using a microsimulation model … that provides improved incentives to work full-time has negligible effects on overall labor supply. With equal welfare … weights, aggregate welfare gains are realizable under all three reforms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298903
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The effects of Germany's new minimum wage on employment and welfare dependency
Schmitz, Sebastian - 2017
effects of this policy on regular and marginal employment and on welfare dependency. Based on county-level administrative data … slightly reduced. Concerning welfare dependency, the minimum wage reduced the number of working welfare recipients, with some … indication that about one half of them left welfare receipt due to the minimum wage. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011699547