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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017
With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...
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Seniority wages and the role of firms in retirement
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015
In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341771
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Seniority wages and the role of firms in retirement
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015
In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296070
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Seniority wages and the role of firms in retirement
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015
In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296975
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Sanctions for young welfare recipients
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2013
Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194760
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Sanctions for young welfare recipients
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - In: Nordic economic policy review (2014) 1, pp. 177-208
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379388
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Sanctions for young welfare recipients
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2013
Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211887
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Labor market entry and earnings dynamics : Bayesian inference using mixtures-of-experts Markov chain clustering
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Pamminger, Christoph; … - In: Journal of applied econometrics 27 (2012) 7, pp. 1116-1137
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009677973
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Labor market entry and earnings dynamics : Bayesian inference using mixtures-of-experts Markov chain clustering
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Pamminger, Christoph; … - 2010
This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market entrants over their life cycle. We identify four distinctly different types of transition patterns between discrete earnings states in a large administrative data set. Further, we investigate the effects of labor...
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Seniority wages and the role of firms in retirement
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433015