Der deutsche Sozialstaat erfreut sich einer hohen Wertschätzung in der Bevölkerung, ist aber wegen seines hohen Leistungsvolumens und seiner konkreten politischen Ausgestaltung starker Kritik ausgesetzt. Dieses Buch vermittelt Grundinformationen und beschreibt aktuelle Entwicklungen. Nach...

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...

Based on a model with imperfectly competitive labor and product markets the real consequences of labor market shocks for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive feature of the analysis is the comparison of both...

Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle, not entitled to job-related welfare even if they are employees in the State sector. The official explanation is that rural-urban migrants are allocated access to farm land in...