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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform

Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …

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Poverty Alleviation and the Degree of Centralisation in European Schemes of Social Assistance

Kraus, Margit; Hölsch, Katja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097643

Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS

Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of … rankings differs with respect to the measures of multidimensional affluence considered. …

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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems

Kraus, Margit - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

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...

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European schemes of social assistance: an empirical analysis of set-ups and distributive impacts

Kraus, Margit; Hölsch, Katja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...

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Crowding out Informal Care? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Germany

Arntz, Melanie; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper evaluates the effects of a professionally assisted consumer-directed program (Personal Budgets) compared to the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social experiment at seven different sites with a random...

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Reforming Home Care Provision in Germany: Evidence from a Social Experiment

Arntz, Melanie; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

In a long-run social experiment, personal budgets have been tested as an alternative to the home care programs of the German long-term care insurance (LTCI). Due to extending the coverage beyond LTCI approved services and agencies, personal budgets may improve care outcomes compared to the...

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Dynamic properties of energy affordability measures

Heindl, Peter; Schüssler, Rudolf - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

on affordability measure has little overlap with the existing literature on poverty measurement. A comprehensive … relative to income or an absolute or relative income poverty line fare well from a dynamic perspective. …

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You can't be happier than your wife: happiness gaps and divorce

Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...

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Agglomeration, Population Size, and the Cost of Providing Public Services: An Empirical Analysis for German States

Stegarescu, Dan; Schwager, Robert; Büttner, Thiess - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

This paper is concerned with the question as to what extent population size and density affect the cost of providing public services at the subnational level. Empirical estimates of cost functions are obtained from an analysis of the expenditures of German states disaggregated into about 40...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098220

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