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Democratisation versus accountability : should the European Parliament be given more powers?
Schwager, Robert - 1999
This paper challenges the assertion that European politics would be closer to the citizens' preferences if decision power were transferred from the Council of Ministers to the European Parliament. On the one hand, citizens benefit from a greater transparency in the Parliament's debates compared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443277
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Overlapping political budget cycles in the legislative and the executive
Foremny, Dirk; Freier, Ronny; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel; … - 2014
We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437178
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784704
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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer : eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997
Brüning, Eva M. (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314698
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314709
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Reforming home care provision in Germany : evidence from a social experiment
Arntz, Melanie (contributor);  … - 2008
In a long-run social experiment, personal budgets have been tested as an alternative to the home care programs of the German long-term care insurance (LTCI). Due to extending the coverage beyond LTCI approved services and agencies, personal budgets may improve care outcomes compared to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793896
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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 … in the former German Democratic Republic drive individual reform preferences. Our empirical results support this notion … narrow scope of self-interest strongly shape individual reform preferences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806186
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Unemployment duration in Germany : individual and regional determinants of local job finding, migration and subsidized employment
Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006
Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses extensive individual administrative and regional aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003404769
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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer : eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997
Brüning, Eva M. (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006 - Rev. version
In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the … maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits. The paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of … the unemployment benefits scheme. We show that the reform effectively reduced the amount of early retirement at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003671087
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Distributional and behavioural effects of the German labour market reform
Clauss, Markus (contributor); Schnabel, Reinhold (contributor) - 2008
We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment … impact of the reform. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003618892