Transition from unemployment benefits to social assistance in seven European OECD countries

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Social Assistance ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Unemployment Benefits

scholarly journals Social Assistance in Oecd Countries

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Gough ◽  
Jonathan Bradshaw ◽  
John Ditch ◽  
Tony Eardley ◽  
Peter Whiteford
Keyword(s):  
Social Assistance ◽  
Oecd Countries

scholarly journals Zur Entwicklung des Anspruchslohns in Deutschland

2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Boss
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
Reservation Wages ◽  
Labor Market Reforms ◽  
The Sixties

AbstractDue to labor market reforms in Germany some years ago, the incentives to work changed. The paper analyzes the effects of the reforms on the reservation wages for specific groups. The replacement rates implied by the system of unemployment benefits and by the rules of means-tested social assistance are investigated in detail. In addition, the paper describes the development of the replacement rates in the recent decades. It turns out that the replacement rates increased in the period 1950 to 1975. Thereafter, the rates for the specific groups developed differently. However, in 2008 the rates are higher than they had been in the fifties and the sixties.

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