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The Objections against Workfare Revised
Lohse, Tim - In: Review of Economics 65 (2014) 1, pp. 95-118
, that workfare harms the welfare of the poor and thereby reduces a society’s welfare in general. This paper analyzes these … exclusive. Welfare increases due to the fact that out of the three effects workfare entails, beyond the detected threshold, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198678
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Investments in the Human Capital of the Socially Disadvantaged Children - Effects on Redistribution
Lohse, Tim; Lutz, Peter F.; Thomann, Christian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2011
Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a great deal of attention. In a discrete version of the Mirrlees model with a parents' and a children's generation we show the intra-generational and the inter-generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370462
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Investments in the human capital of the socially disadvantaged children: Effects on redistribution
Lohse, Tim; Lutz, Peter F.; Thomann, Christian - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2011
Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a great deal of attention. Programs of such early intervention, aiming at children's health and well-being, are spreading considerably in the U.S. and are currently tested in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397105
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Optimal Tax-Transfer-Schemes under Partial Information
Homburg, Stefan; Lohse, Tim - 2004
According to a widely held belief, ?all who are able to work, should work?. We consider this statement within a framework of non-linear taxation. The crucial difference between our model and the standard model is that the government can distinguish between productive persons and the disabled. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262924
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Hartz IV: The German ?Word of the Year 2004? and the Country?s Hope to overcome its Problem of Unemployment
Lohse, Tim - 2005
, was to reduce the lack of jobs and to increase welfare. Facing persistently increasing unemployment rates from then on … disputed reform of the German social welfare system. By characterising effects and defects of the German welfare system, we … valuation of labour. To conclude, potential welfare and employment effects under the new sys-tem are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262933
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Investments in the Human Capital of the Socially Disadvantaged Children - Effects on Redistribution
Lohse, Tim; Lutz, Peter F.; Thomann, Christian - 2011
Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a great deal of attention. In a discrete version of the Mirrlees model with a parents' and a children's generation we show the intra-generational and the inter-generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294444
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Redistributional consequences of early childhood intervention
Lohse, Tim; Lutz, Peter; Thomann, Christian - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 14 (2013) 3, pp. 373-381
Recently, early investment in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments has attracted a great deal of attention. Programs of such early intervention, aimed at children’s health and well-being, are spreading considerably in the US and are currently being tested in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010680600
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Investments in the human capital of the socially disadvantaged children: Effects on redistribution
Lohse, Tim; Lutz, Peter F.; Thomann, Christian - 2011
Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a great deal of attention. Programs of such early intervention, aiming at children's health and well-being, are spreading considerably in the U.S. and are currently tested in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307674
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Hartz IV The German Word of the Year 2004 and the Country s Hope to overcome its Problem of Unemployment
Lohse, Tim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2005
, was to reduce the lack of jobs and to increase welfare. Facing persistently increasing unemployment rates from then on … reform of the German social welfare system. By characterising effects and defects of the German welfare system, we identify … valuation of labour. To conclude, potential welfare and employment effects under the new system are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005138915
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Optimal Tax-Transfer-Schemes under Partial Information
Homburg, Stefan; Lohse, Tim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2004
According to a widely held belief, all who are able to work, should work . We consider this statement within a framework of non-linear taxation. The crucial differ-ence between our model and the standard model is that the government can distinguish between productive persons and the disabled. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005606949