This paper examines efforts to make work pay, concentrating on U.S. American and German policies and experiments. We are specifically interested in fleshing out the relevance of U.S. American models for a German context as well as the special characteristics of the German situation which do not...

Social assistance in Germany reduces the incentive to work. TheU. S. Welfare to Work Programme tries to avoid such disincentives. It consists essentially of two elements: the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for employees in low wage occupations and a Workfare model. The EITC and the Workfare...

Social assistance in Germany reduces the incentive to work. The U.S. Welfare to Work Programm tries to avoid such distinctives. It consists essentially of two elements: the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for employees in low wage occupations and a workfare model. The EITC and the Workfare model...