-term unemployed. In this paper, we use an incomplete-market model with search unemployment to evaluate the macro-economic and welfare …-run (noncyclical) unemployment rate in Germany by 1.4 percentage points. We also find that the welfare of employed households increases …, but the welfare of unemployed households decreases even with moderate degree of risk aversion. …

courses for welfare recipients and to detect which programme type works best with respect to different outcome indicators … inexpensive options to activate welfare recipients. Originality/value – The paper analyses the effects of six short training … programmes for welfare recipients that have not been analysed before. The sensitivity of the results is examined using a wide …

courses for welfare recipients and to detect which programme type works best with respect to different outcome indicators … inexpensive options to activate welfare recipients. Originality/value – The paper analyses the effects of six short training … programmes for welfare recipients that have not been analysed before. The sensitivity of the results is examined using a wide …

organizational change within Germany's social sector as a basis for a new perspective on the future of German welfare capitalism and … “disorganized” welfare capitalism shaped by both formal institutional stickiness and considerable change of the social sector …'s service provisions. While this change leads to more heterogeneous outcomes in terms of welfare it is also conducive to social …

, one of Germany's leading economists, takes a frank look at his country's economic problems and proposes welfare- and tax …-reform measures aimed at returning Germany to its former vigor and vitality. Germany invented the welfare state in the 1880s when … for other industrialized countries. But, Sinn argues, today's German welfare state has incurred immense fiscal costs and …

, one of Germany's leading economists, takes a frank look at his country's economic problems and proposes welfare- and tax …-reform measures aimed at returning Germany to its former vigor and vitality. Germany invented the welfare state in the 1880s when … for other industrialized countries. But, Sinn argues, today's German welfare state has incurred immense fiscal costs and …

negative effect on the welfare of low skill workers in manufacturing (-0.6%), but all other worker groups are gaining from … policy implementing equal employment opportunities can generate a welfare gain equal to +0.9% with all worker groups (weakly …