"We estimate the effects of the reform of German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage-related Unemployment Assistance with an income maintenance Programme and stronger means testing. We model the tax-benefit system and use the Socio-Economic Panel. We estimate a discrete labour supply...

"Die Auseinandersetzung um die negative Einkommensteuer wird in der Bundesrepublik seit Beginn der 80er Jahre geführt und findet ihren aktuellen Niederschlag in der parteipolitischen Diskussion des Jahres 1994. So hat sich die FDP auf ihrem Parteitag 1994 für ein Bürgergeld ausgesprochen....

This paper assesses to what extent the arguments put forward in the consensus debate can help explain the different economic performance of Latin American and Asian countries. The paper shows that Latin America and fast-growing Asia indeed differ significantly with respect to all economic policy...

"We estimate the effects of the reform of German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage-related Unemployment Assistance with an income maintenance Programme and stronger means testing. We model the tax-benefit system and use the Socio-Economic Panel. We estimate a discrete labour supply...

"Die Auseinandersetzung um die negative Einkommensteuer wird in der Bundesrepublik seit Beginn der 80er Jahre geführt und findet ihren aktuellen Niederschlag in der parteipolitischen Diskussion des Jahres 1994. So hat sich die FDP auf ihrem Parteitag 1994 für ein Bürgergeld ausgesprochen....

Global carbon pricing can yield revenues which are large enough to create significant global pro-poor redistributive opportunities. We analyze alternative multidecade growth trajectories from 2015 to 2105 for major global economies with carbon tax rates designed to stabilize emissions in the...

The HIPC Initiative In Bolivia

The improvement of the welfare of inhabitants of arid and semi-arid lands, either through the enhancement of existing livelihoods or the promotion of alternative ones, and their potential constraints are discussed. Alternative livelihoods are discussed under regenerative and extractive themes...

This working paper explores how the poverty reduction capacity of social security evolved in the ‘booming’ years leading up to the current economic crisis. The question to arise is whether and, if so, why social protection provides an explanation for, on the one hand, disappointing poverty...

Poverty reduction rests on the mechanisms of horizontal and vertical solidarity and on prevention and repair of social risks. In this contribution, we argue that in contemporary welfare states the poverty-reducing capacity of existing social security systems perceive inherent limitations....