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Politikversagen als Ursache der deutschen Sozialstaatskrise / Political Failure as a Cause of the Crisis of the German Welfare State
Lampert, Heinz - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 225 (2005) 1, pp. 44-59
Zusammenfassung In der Untersuchung wird die Frage erörtert, ob Politikversagen eine wesentliche Mitursache für die … hohe Arbeitslosigkeit und die Krise des deutschen Sozialstaates ist. Der Verfasser stellt zunächst das Politikversagen in … Steuern finanziert wurden. Er geht dann auf das Politikversagen in der Europapolitik ein, das in der Verwirklichung der …
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is "basic security", with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands
Gautier, Pieter; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2009
In this paper we provide a description of the labor market in the Netherlands. Compared to other OECD countries labor force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are, however, relatively many long-term unemployed workers....
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Local Labor Demand and Participation in Social Insurance Programs
Andersen, Asbjørn - 2019
Based on administrative data from Norway, we explore the "grey area" between the roles of unemployment- and temporary disability-insurances by examining how participation in these two program types is affected by local labor demand conditions. Local labor demand is identified by means of a...
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Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply : the German experience
Caliendo, Marco - 2009
In view of the demographic trends, most EU countries face the problem of a declining work force in the future. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and pension systems) and total labor supply is of...
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Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply : the German experience
Caliendo, Marco - 2009
In view of the demographic trends, most EU countries face the problem of a declining work force in the future. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and pension systems) and total labor supply is of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932145
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Use of unemployment insurance and public employment services after leaving welfare
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
In this paper I examine the rates at which adults in households recently receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded employment services. I also investigate the correlation...
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"Shelter from the storm?" - Danish flexicurity and the crisis
Madsen, Per - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-19
The Danish model won fame for its performance during the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000-years and took a position as a model for the European Employment Strategy and a much cited example of a real life flexicurity model. Like most other European countries Denmark has now fallen into a deep...
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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the non-pecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...
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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515336