In Deutschland werden in jüngster Zeit immer häufiger amerikanische Verhältnisse im Umgang mit Sozialhilfeempfängern gefordert. Wie sieht die amerikanische Sozialhilfepolitik tatsächlich aus? Welche Lehren könnte man für Deutschland ziehen?

Mit den im Zuge der Umsetzung der Agenda 2010 initiierten Reformen ist das Ziel verbunden, der Kostenexplosion einer sich über die Jahre zunehmend fehl entwickelnden und zum Teil falsch verstandenen Sozialstaatlichkeit Einhalt zu gebieten und damit einen Kollaps der Sozialsysteme zu verhindern....

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...

Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the principal instrument for delivering social protection. Such safety-net benefits aim primarily at...

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...

In the 1990s, many municipalities developed local activation programs for social assistance recipients as a response to increasing social assistance expenditures. This study investigates the practical implementation of municipal activation policies in two different activation programs,...