Lohnsubventionen und Kombilöhne sind ein fester Bestandteil des arbeitsmarktpolitischen Instrumentariums industrieller Länder. Sie haben das Ziel, Arbeitslose zu motivieren, auch Beschäftigungen mit geringerem Marktlohn anzunehmen sowie den Lebensstandard der Geförderten zu erhöhen und...

"In the United States, almost a third of new mothers who worked during pregnancy return to work within three months of childbirth. Current public policies in the U.S. do not support long periods of family leave after childbirth, although some states are starting to change this. As such, it is...

Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007-09 and its aftermath, large numbers of recipients exhausted their maximum available UI benefits prior to finding new jobs. Using SIPP panel data and an event-study regression...