Purpose – The goal of the paper is to investigate how reservation wages of older unemployed welfare recipients change once they are no longer subject to standard job search requirements. Design/methodology/approach – The authors apply a regression discontinuity design. Findings –...

"In 2005, benefit sanctions in Germany were tightened with the introduction of the new means-tested unemployment benefit II (UB II), codified in Social Code (SC) II. This study analyzes the effect of benefit sanctions on the reservation wage of sanctioned unemployment benefit II recipients. The...

In diesem Buch wird die These begründet und vertreten, dass - angesichts ökologischer, sozialer und ökonomischer Krisen - weiteres wirtschaftliches Wachstum weder eine zukunftsfähige Option, noch eine anstrebenswerte Entwicklungsrichtung darstellt. Zur langfristigen Sicherung von Wohlstand...

"In this paper, the current knowledge and issues regarding the economic impact of health at work in Germany is reviewed as a part of the EU project 'An inquiry into health and safety at work: a European Union perspective' (acronym: HEALTHat-WORK). After a description of the German institutional...

"In this paper, the current knowledge and issues regarding the economic impact of health at work in Germany is reviewed as a part of the EU project 'An inquiry into health and safety at work: a European Union perspective' (acronym: HEALTHat-WORK). After a description of the German institutional...

"In 2005, benefit sanctions in Germany were tightened with the introduction of the new means-tested unemployment benefit II (UB II), codified in Social Code (SC) II. This study analyzes the effect of benefit sanctions on the reservation wage of sanctioned unemployment benefit II recipients. The...

"In recent years activation of means-tested unemployment benefit recipients has become a major issue of European labour market policy. We study the effect of participation in a new business start-up scheme for needy unemployed people in Germany. The programme was introduced at the beginning of...

"In this paper we analyze how motherhood affects women's wages. Using a dataset from Russia we adopt a matching technique to account for possible selection effects. Our findings indicate that mothers tend to suffer a moderate wage penalty. We also confine our analysis to sector-specific effects...

"Mit der Einführung des Sozialgesetzbuches (SGB) II wurde das Einstiegsgeld (§ 29 SGB II) geschaffen. Durch dieses Instrument können arbeitslose erwerbsfähige Hilfebedürftige bei der Aufnahme einer sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung oder selbständigen Tätigkeit zum Vollerwerb...