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How Reliable Are Social Safety Nets? Value and Accessibility in Situations of Acute Economic Need
Immervoll, Herwig; Hyee, Raphaela; Fernandez, Rodrigo; … - 2022
Social protection systems use a range of entitlement criteria. First-tier support typically requires contributions or past employment in many countries, while safety net benefits are granted on the basis of need. In a context of volatile and uncertain labour markets, careful and continuous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351771
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De-facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-standard Workers: An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support
Immervoll, Herwig; Fernandez, Rodrigo; Hyee, Raphaela; … - 2022
Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. Income stabilisation and related social policy objectives hinge on the extent to which social protection is accessible for those requiring support....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351828
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Effectiveness of sequences of One-Euro-Jobs: Is it better to do more One-Euro-Jobs or to wait?
Dengler, Katharina - 2013
Many studies have analysed the effectiveness of single active labour market programmes (ALMPs) for welfare recipients … in different countries. As empirical evidence reveals that welfare recipients in Germany often participate in multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420664
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Should welfare administration be centralized or decentralized? Evidence from a policy experiment
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas; … - 2010
The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration …. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies are bound to central … of both types of organizations. Compared to centralized organization, decentralized organization of welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281607
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Social insurance networks
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2012
Based on administrative panel data from Norway, we examine how social insurance dependency spreads within neighborhoods, families, ethnic minorities, and among former schoolmates. We use a fixed effects methodology that accounts for endogenous group formation, contextual interactions, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282339
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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions : an effective Tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2009
Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In … practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on … sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902960
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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions : an effective tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2009
Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In … practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on … sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920164
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Should welfare administration be centralized or decentralized? : Evidence from a policy experiment
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas; … - 2010
The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration …. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies are bound to central … of both types of organizations. Compared to centralized organization, decentralized organization of welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796152
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Sind ARGEn wirklich besser? : Anmerkungen zur Evaluation der Betreuungsorganisation im Bereich der Grundsicherung
Schneider, Hilmar - 2009
Mit der Einführung von Arbeitslosengeld II wurde auch die behördliche Zuständigkeit für die Grundsicherung einer grundlegenden Reorganisation unterzogen. Während in der überwiegenden Mehrheit der Kommunen in Form der sogenannten Arbeitsgemeinschaften eine Mischverwaltung aus Bundesagentur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874815
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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions? : an effective tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2009
Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In … practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on … sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942053