Wiemers, Jürgen; Bruckmeier, Kerstin - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 229 (2009) 4, pp. 492-511
Summary Since Germany’s social assistance reform (“Hartz-IV-Reform”) in 2005 there has been a strong increase in the number of working poor and long-term unemployed. This development is often attributed to the remaining disincentives of the reformed social assistance to take up a low-paid...
