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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003912101
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Optimal Tax Credits in the Context of the German System of Apprenticeship Training and Social Security
Fleischhauer, Kai-Joseph - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2006
There is an ongoing discussion in Germany about the implementation of tax credits in order to reintegrate low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797671
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Agenda 2020 : Strategien für eine Politik der Vollbeschäftigung
Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
Mit diesem Strategiepapier zeigt das Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) Wege auf, wie Deutschland in der vor uns … : Deutschland ist auch auf qualifizierte Zuwanderung angewiesen, um den Problemen von Demografie und Fachkräftemangel gewachsen zu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940275
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Agenda 2020 : strategies to achieve full employment in Germany
Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
This strategy paper by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) shows ways in which Germany once more can attain full … labor market development in the right direction. The reforms are one of the main reasons why Germany has been more resistant … reform: Germany needs high-skilled immigrants to cope with demographic change and skilled labor shortages. A selection system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950583
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Agenda 2020: Strategies to Achieve Full Employment in Germany
Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
This strategy paper by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) shows ways in which Germany once more can attain full … market development in the right direction. The reforms are one of the main reasons why Germany has been more resistant to the … reform: Germany needs high-skilled immigrants to cope with demographic change and skilled labor shortages. A selection system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331435
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Agenda 2020: Strategien für eine Politik der Vollbeschäftigung
Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
Mit diesem Strategiepapier zeigt das Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) Wege auf, wie Deutschland in der vor uns …: Deutschland ist auch auf qualifizierte Zuwanderung angewiesen, um den Problemen von Demografie und Fachkräftemangel gewachsen zu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331492
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Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Design of Earned Income Tax Credits
Blundell, Richard W. - 2008
This paper examines the optimal schedule of marginal tax rates and the design of earned income tax credits. The analysis is based on a structural labour supply model which incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work and the detailed non-convexities of the tax and welfare system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768339
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Work incentives and universal credit : reform of the benefit system in the United Kingdom
Pareliussen, Jon K. - 2013
Under the Universal Credit reform, the main means-tested benefits except the Council Tax Benefit will be pooled into one single benefit with one single taper rate. The reform will give people better incentives to work, reduce complexity and contribute to reducing poverty. The reform could reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767763
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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - 2015
the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510683
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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - 2015
the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513366