Schelkle, Waltraud - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 69 (2000) 1, pp. 5-16
Promoting employment at low earnings figures prominently in several debates on how to make the German social welfare system more prone to job creation. In the U.S., about 15% of all civilian jobs are subsidized via the Earned Income Tax Credit, a transfer program that refunds income taxes beyond...