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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems

Kraus, Margit - 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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Idiosyncratic risk, aggregate risk, and the welfare effects of social security

Harenberg, Daniel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2018 - This version: December 1, 2017

We ask whether a pay-as-you-go financed social security system is welfare improving in an economy with idiosyncratic productivity and aggregate business cycle risk. We show analytically that the whole welfare benefit from joint insurance against both risks is greater than the sum of benefits...

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How weather-proof is the construction sector? : empirical evidence from Germany

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2008

With the purpose to reduce winter unemployment and to promote all-season employment in the constructions sector, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to several reforms that resemble the range of approaches for...

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Selektivität und direkte Wirkungen von Vermittlungsgutscheinen : empirische Befunde aus der Einführungsphase

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor); … - 2006

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Private job placement services : a microeconometric evaluation for Germany

Winterhager, Henrik (contributor) - 2006

In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out placement services for the unemployed to private agencies. Whereas in the Netherlands and Australia the whole system of employment services was reorganized at once, making an...

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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemploymed in West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2006

Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...

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Vermittlungsgutscheine und Beauftragungen Dritter im Vergleich

Winterhager, Hendrik (contributor); … - 2006

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Choosing from the reform menu card : individual determinants of labour market policy preferences

Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor); … - 2009

This contribution empirically explores the drivers of labour market reform acceptance for the individual level in Germany. For that purpose we make use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). This survey offers data to which extent individuals support benefit cuts, longer...

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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - 2010

Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und in vielen … Beschäftigungssuche ab, denn in Deutschland können dem Arbeitslosen zu jedem Zeitpunkt Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen zugewiesen werden …. Wir evaluieren ein wichtiges Programm der beruflichen Weiterbildung in Deutschland (Förderung der beruflichen …

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Should welfare administration be centralized or decentralized? : Evidence from a policy experiment

Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas; … - 2010

The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies are bound to central directives. At the same time, 69 districts were allowed to opt...

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