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Benefit-entitlement effects and the duration of unemployment : an ex-ante evaluation of recent labour market reforms in Germany
Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630465
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Armut in Deutschland : Bevölkerungsgruppen unterhalb der Alg II-Grenze
Becker, Irene - 2007
Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist die Ermittlung von Größe und Struktur der Bevölkerung in Deutschland mit Einkommen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628622
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Estimating incentive and welfare effects of non-stationary unemployment benefits
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2010
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we translate these exit rates into an expression for the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation...
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How have employment transitions for older workers in Germany and the UK changed?
Wright, David - 2015
improvement "compared to many nations". A comparison of European, Labour Force Surveys show that Germany has reversed early … the UK would react faster than conservative ones like Germany. A review of changes to pensions and employment policies … suggests the UK puts more emphasis on recruitment of older workers, flexible working and gradual retirement while Germany puts …
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Potential effects of statutory minimum wage on the gender pay gap : a simulation-based study for Germany
Boll, Christina; Hüning, Hendrik; Leppin, Julian Sebastian - 2015
newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287026
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Why a labour market boom does not necessarily bring down inequality: putting together Germany's inequality puzzle
Biewen, Martin; Sturm, Miriam - 2021
After an economically tough start into the new millennium, Germany experienced an unprecedented employment boom after …
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Long-term participation tax rates
Bartels, Charlotte - 2013
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to reduce work incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual income concepts. This paper analyzes work incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221556
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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2015
We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517688
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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply
Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015
up work. Using German microdata over the period 1993 - 2010 we find that recent reforms in Germany increased work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299149
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State dependence in welfare receipt : transitions before and after a reform
Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - 2015
We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of...
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