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Do supplementary jobs for welfare recipients increase the chance of welfare exit? : evidence from Germany
Mosthaf, Alexander; Schank, Thorsten; Schwarz, Stefan - 2021
Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of having a supplementary job was introduced to reduce welfare dependency and facilitate successful labor market integration. In the present study, we use the German Panel Study...
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Welfare to work in Germany : a proposal on how to promote employment and growth
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Holzner, Christian; Meister, Wolfgang; … - 2003
The Ifo Institute has worked out a detailed proposal to reform the system of welfare benefits and made estimates regarding the consequences for employment, distribution of income and fiscal costs. The Ifo proposal aims at making the German labour market functional again without lowering the...
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The dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Germany : state dependence before and after the "Hartz reforms"
Königs, Sebastian - 2014
In this article, I study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1995-2011. There is considerable observed state dependence, with an average persistence rate in benefits of 68% comparing to an...
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Social distress and (some) relief : estimating the impact of pandemic job loss on poverty in South Africa
Bassier, Ihsaan; Budlender, Joshua; Goldman, Maya - 2022
Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty estimates, simulating incomes in prepandemic household...
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Labor market policy and subjective well-being during the Great Recession
Morgan, Robson; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019
labor market policies. More generous unemployment support, which provided income replacement or programs to assist …
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Grundeinkommen vs. Kombilohn : Beschäftigungs- und Finanzierungswirkungen und Unterschiede im Empfängerkreis
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
In der ökonomischen Literatur wird oft argumentiert, dass Kombilohnmodelle und Grundeinkommenskonzepte im Prinzip nur Varianten einer negativen Einkommenssteuer seien. Dabei wird oft übersehen, dass diese Konzepte sehr unterschiedliche Gruppen der Bevölkerung einbeziehen. Dieser Beitrag...
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Welfare Benefit Reforms and Employment
Aloi, Marta - 2017
We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the … implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … deterioration. To support employment, we suggest that systems grounded in contribution-based unemployment insurance schemes are to …
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The employment effects of generous and unconditional cash support
Verlaat, Timo; Todeschini, Federico; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2023
While unconditional cash transfers have been studied extensively in developing countries, little is known about their effects in a wealthier context. Through a randomized controlled trial, we study the employment effects of a generous and unconditional transfer targeting low-income families in...
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Die zentralen Elemente der aktivierenden Sozialhilfe : Reformkonzepte zur Erhöhung der Beschäftigung im Niedriglohnbereich ; Niedriglohnsektor
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Holzner, Christian; Meister, Wolfgang; … - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 60 (2007) 4, pp. 48-53
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Aktivierende Sozialhilfe 2006 : das Kombilohn-Modell des ifo-Instituts
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Holzner, Christian; Meister, Wolfgang - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 59 (2006) 2, pp. 6-27
Am 26. Januar 2006 stellte das ifo Institut im Rahmen einer Bundespressekonferenz die aktualisierte Version des ifo Kombilohn-Modells "Aktivierende Sozialhilfe" vor, das eine Alternative zum heutigen Lohnersatzmodell bietet. Das ifo-Modell eröffnet bei verringerten fiskalischen Kosten...
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