This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

Introduction -- The emergence of the work-first prescription -- Welfare reform and access to postsecondary education: national trends -- The implementation of welfare reform: consistency and change -- The workforce investment act: investment or disinvestment? -- The implementation of WIA: does...

Preface -- The frontline delivery of welfare-to-work in context / Dorte Caswell, Peter Kupka, Flemming Larsen and Rik van Berkel -- State of the art in frontline studies of welfare-to-work : a literature review / Rik van Berkel -- Street-level organizations and us workfare : insights for policy...

Den Ausgangspunkt dieser Studie bildet die empirisch belegbare Beobachtung grundlegender Unterschiede bei der Entwicklung der Arbeitsmärkte – insbesondere der Arbeitslosigkeit – in den USA im Vergleich zu Deutschland. Zur Erklärung dieser Diskrepanz liegt eine kaum überschaubare Fülle...