heterogeneous welfare effects of labor market integration. Whereas individuals without residential property lose from immigration …

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …, our findings indicate that the impact of welfare rules crucially hinges on the biological relationship of the male partner …

Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …

, as well as eligibility-rules for a number of welfare programs, such as social assistance, housing allowance etc. The … income for various combinations of hours of work and welfare. It can be used for calculating accurate (net) household incomes … conditional on labour supply while income tax rules and the various welfare benefit-levels are complicated functions of earned and …

Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with … the literature on the effects of sanctions in social welfare systems and we present first results on the effects of … sanctions for young unemployed welfare recipients based on German administrative data. The German welfare system is particularly …

. Our exercise suggests that the endogenous adjustment of low-skill workers can only partially offset the welfare …-deteriorating effects of offshoring. As a result, we aim at restoring welfare by increasing the opportunity cost of staying low-skill. In … addition to this, we also consider labor flexibility as an effective policy to deal with the adverse welfare effects of …

This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin … provides a new unified framework that generates testable predictions of whether migration increases non-migrants' welfare in … improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …