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Expanding the welfare state after the Golden Age: The case of Switzerland
Moser, Julia - 2005
.h. nach dem Ende des so genannten Goldenen Zeitalters. Die leitende Frage ist, ob die Schweiz ihre Sozialprogramme in dieser … Veränderungen dürfen aber nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass auch in der Schweiz ein gewisser Rückbau des Wohlfahrtsstaates … systematischen race to the bottom in der Schweiz. Bezüglich der Ausgabendaten muss allerdings berücksichtigt werden, dass diese nicht …
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The demand for social insurance: Does culture matter?
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011
Can different social groups develop different demands for social insurance of risks to health and work? We study this issue across language groups in Switzerland. Language defines social groups and Swiss language groups are separated by a clear geographic border. Actual levels of social...
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The impact on incentives of five years of social security reforms in the UK
Brewer, Mike; Clark, Tom - 2002
The UK's Labour Government has expanded means-testing of social security but attempted to do so while minimising the disincentive effects typically associated with such an approach. We test whether it has succeeded by reviewing the effect of 5 years of reforms on a range of incentives across the...
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Five years of social security reform in the UK
Brewer, Mike; Clark, Tom; Wakefield, Matthew - 2002
The current Labour Government was elected in 1997 with few specific social security proposals. This paper argues that after five years, consistent trends in social security policy have emerged: there is a willingness to increase benefits; a “work-first” focus; increasing centrality for...
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Couple's behaviour in the Brazilian labour market: The influence of social security and individual characteristics on married individuals' labour supply decisions
Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza; de Souza, Laetícia Rodrigues - 2013
In recent years, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship between social security benefits and male retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal from the labour force in emerging economies...
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Integrating public works and cash transfers in Ethiopia: Implications for social protection, employment and decent work
Lieuw-Kie-Song, Maikel - 2011
[Introduction ...] This paper aims to draw out useful lessons from PSNP’s policy framework and design, but not to evaluate them. While it refers to some evaluations of PSNP, the main interest in this regard is to understand how these evaluations have influenced policy and design changes to the...
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Public works and employment programmes: Towards a long-term development approach
Lal, Radhika; Miller, Steve; Lieuw-Kie-Song, Maikel; … - 2010
Public works and employment programmes have long been considered a staple of social assistance. For the most part, though, they have been designed as short-term safety nets. While, in some cases, the focus has also been on reducing poverty or addressing structural unemployment challenges, their...
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Die wirtschaftliche Lage Rußlands: Monetäre Orientierungslosigkeit und realwirtschaftlicher Aktionismus. Dritter Bericht
Buch, Claudia M.; Hiemenz, Ulrich; Koop, Michael J.; … - 1993
Die beteiligten Institute legen hiermit ihren dritten Bericht über die Wirtschaft Rußlands vor. Der Bericht ist in zwei Teile gegliedert. Im ersten Teil wird der aktuelle Stand der Wirtschaftsentwicklung und der Reformpolitik dargestellt. Seit der Fertigstellung des zweiten Berichts hat sich...
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Hundert Punkte für mehr Beschäftigung
Siebert, Horst - 1996
Mehr Beschäftigung und weniger Arbeitslosigkeit kann es in einer Marktwirtschaft nur geben, wenn die Arbeitsproduktivität, die Wertschöpfung pro Beschäftigten, stärker steigt als die Löhne. Ist dagegen die Lohnzunahme größer als der Produktivitätsfortschritt, so bauen die Unternehmen...
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Defining the flexicurity index in application to European countries
Tangian, Andranik S. - 2004
The notion of flexicurity was introduced in the 1990s to promote a better job security and social security of atypically employed (other than permanent full-time). The given paper suggests an operational definition of flexicurity which implies the corresponding flexicurity index. For analytical...
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