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Are there austerity‐related policy changes in Germany?

Eichhorst, Werner; Hassel, Anke - 2015

This paper assesses the existence and the extent of austerity‐oriented policies in Germany in the aftermath of the 2008‐9 recession. In contrast to the intensive phase of labour market and welfare state reforms in the early 2000s aimed at 'welfare readjustment', we do not see austerity...

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Immigration to the land of redistribution

Boeri, Tito - 2009

Negative perceptions about migrants in Europe, the Continent with the largest social policy programmes, are driven by … perceptions about migrants in Europe. Based on a simple model of the perceived fiscal effects of migration and on a largely … dilemma facing Europe involves i. co-ordinating safety nets across the EU, ii. adopting explicitly selective migration …

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Generating legitimacy for labor market and welfare state reforms : the role of policy advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); Wintermann, Ole (contributor) - 2005

Policy advice can help political actors design and implement institutional reforms through the generation of political and substantial legitimacy. This article clarifies the institutional pre-conditions of effective supply and transfer of policy advice with particular respect to the field of...

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Financing social security : simulating different welfare state systems for Germany

Dieckhoener, Caroline; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system...

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Migration, Sozialstaat und Zuwanderungspolitik

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2002

Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags wird die Frage analysiert, ob ein großzügig ausgestalteter Sozialstaat zusätzliche …

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Immigrant responses to social insurance generosity

Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2018

Immigrants from low‐income source countries tend to be underrepresented in employment and overrepresented in social insurance programs. Based on administrative data from Norway, we examine how these gaps reflect systematic differences in the impacts of social insurance benefits on work...

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Welfare states, labor markets, social investment and the digital transformation

Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton; Scalise, Gemma - 2020

Barely having had the time to digest the economic and social aftershocks of the Great Recession, European welfare states are confronted with the even more disruptive coronavirus pandemic as probably, threatening the life of the more vulnerable, while incurring job losses for many as the...

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Pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into the European welfare state

Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

public in Europe has rather negative attitudes towards immigrants. Although the business community views immigrants somewhat …

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Income and employment effects of health shocks : a test case for the German welfare state

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998

Using data from the first eleven waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel this study investigates the dynamic effects of health shocks on employment and economic wellbeing of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment...

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Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto; Murard, Elie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...

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