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A Good Time for Making Work Pay? Taking Stock of In-Work Benefits and Related Measures across the OECD

Immervoll, Herwig; Pearson, Mark - 2009

The twin problem of in-work poverty and persistent labour market difficulties of low-skilled individuals has been one of the most important drivers of tax-benefit policy reforms in OECD countries in recent years. Employment-conditional cash transfers to individuals facing particular...

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Internationale Vergleiche beim Mindestlohn

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 21 (2014) 4, pp. 34-35

Ab dem 1.Januar 2015 soll in Deutschland ein flächendeckender Mindestlohn von 8,50 € gelten. Die Warnungen vor … in Großbritannien der Mindestlohn neu eingeführt, ohne dass es zu nennenswerten Verwerfungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt kam …. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Eingriffsintensität des deutschen Mindestlohns im internationalen Vergleich. Ein Mindestlohn …

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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010

In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...

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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009

In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the country. Since such wages are independent of the workers'...

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Durch »staatliche Gewinnbeteiligung« zu mehr Beschäftigung

Schöb, Ronnie - In: ifo Schnelldienst 54 (2001) 21, pp. 11-17

Soll die Zahl der Arbeitslosen in Deutschland verringert werden, müssen die Arbeitskosten deutlich gesenkt werden. Doch die historisch gewachsene Einkommensverteilung lässt sich nicht antasten, ohne den sozialen Konsens zwischen Beziehern von Arbeitseinkommen und Beziehern von Kapitaleinkommen...

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Die Magdeburger Alternative: Lohnende Arbeit bezahlbar machen

Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - In: ifo Schnelldienst 60 (2007) 04, pp. 42-45

Die Magdeburger Alternative plädiert für eine Befreiung der Arbeitgeber von den gesamten Sozialversicherungsbeiträgen, welche die Arbeitskosten unmittelbar senkt. Um Mitnahmeeffekte auf Seiten der Arbeitgeber zu vermeiden, werden von Arbeitslosengeld-II-Empfängern neu aufgenommene...

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Inequalities within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe

Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007

In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countries that are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the extent that women earn less than men on average under...

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Can parents afford to work? Childcare costs, tax-benefit policies and work incentives

Immervoll, Herwig; Barber, David - 2006

Childcare policies play a crucial role in helping parents reconcile care and employment-related tasks. This paper quantifies the net cost of purchasing full-time centre-based childcare in OECD countries taking into account a wide range of influences on household budgets, including fees charged...

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Minimum-income benefits in OECD countries: policy design, effectiveness and challenges

Immervoll, Herwig - 2009

Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the principal instrument for delivering social protection. Such safety-net benefits aim primarily at...

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How tight are safety-nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish register data

Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - 2007

The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both benefit entitlement...

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