. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and … effects of social assistance, and the redistributive effects, and the incentives and distortion mechanisms that transfer …

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform … identify causal effects. We find strong and robust behavioral effects of changes in financial retirement incentives. A … low education respond most strongly to an increase in the price of leisure. -- retirement insurance ; incentives ; social …

subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but …

retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …