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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936137
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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632735
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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 - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962738
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Internationale Vergleiche beim Mindestlohn
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 21 (2014) 04, 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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011733401
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Minimum wages and their alternatives : a critical assessment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008
Do minimum wages reduce in-work-poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? We evaluate theses issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage dispersion at the bottom of the wage distribution. We...
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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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