"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...

"Almost twenty years after German reunification there are still huge income disparities between western and eastern regions in Germany. The main purpose of the paper is to show how social transfer payments reduce these inter-regional disparities. In a first step we examine inequalities in the...

"The article describes (concentrates on the description of) the employment development and social problems related to labour market situation in Poland during the transition period (before the EU accession). It consists of four parts. The first gives an overview of basic tendencies in labour...

"In der Untersuchung soll geprüft werden, inwieweit Arbeitslosengeld, Arbeitslosenhilfe und Wohngeld als Sicherung vor Armut oder Abstieg in die Verarmung dienen können. Der dabei verwendete mikrosimulative Ansatz basiert auf dem Grundgedanken, daß erst im Zuge der Arbeitslosigkeit ein...

Seen against the background of the relatively favourable economic conditions prevailing in 2000 (3.5 percent in real economic growth), expenditure for social security totalled € 59.6 billion, an increase over 1999 by 1.7 percent in real terms and thus markedly lower than the rise in GDP. As a...

"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...

"In der Untersuchung soll geprüft werden, inwieweit Arbeitslosengeld, Arbeitslosenhilfe und Wohngeld als Sicherung vor Armut oder Abstieg in die Verarmung dienen können. Der dabei verwendete mikrosimulative Ansatz basiert auf dem Grundgedanken, daß erst im Zuge der Arbeitslosigkeit ein...

"This paper provides an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labour market and social policy in Germany. It not only shows the changes in the instruments of active and passives labour market policies but also analyzes the implications of this change for the political economy, the...

"This paper provides an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labour market and social policy in Germany. It not only shows the changes in the instruments of active and passives labour market policies but also analyzes the implications of this change for the political economy, the...

"Almost twenty years after German reunification there are still huge income disparities between western and eastern regions in Germany. The main purpose of the paper is to show how social transfer payments reduce these inter-regional disparities. In a first step we examine inequalities in the...