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No one-size-fits-all solution. Effects of social policies on in-work poverty (2025)
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Brülle, Jan (2025): No one-size-fits-all solution. Effects of social policies on in-work poverty. In: European Societies, S. 1-29. DOI:10.1162/euso.a.19
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"The paper studies effects of social policies on in-work poverty risks, distinguishing between measures that either intervene in labor market processes - i.e. predistribution policies - or redistribute towards those with low incomes. The analyses use data from EU-SILC and macro-level indicators from various sources to estimate general as well as household-typespecific effects using longitudinal methods. Results reveal important differences between specific policies: increasing minimum wages contributes to reducing low-wage risks, but has no significant effect on in-work poverty risks. In contrast, there is a negative effect of strict employment protection legislation across almost all household types on in-work poverty, which is consistent with the positive role this measure plays for supporting earnings that are sufficient to provide not only for one person, but also potential dependants in the household. With respect to redistributional policies, both unemployment benefits and benefits to low earners reduce poverty due to their contribution to public poverty-reduction. However, whereas unemployment benefits only reduce in-work poverty among couple households, benefits to low earners mainly contribute to lower poverty risks among employed single parents. Overall, the results underscore that predistributional and redistributional as well as universal and targeted interventions cannot easily substitute each other." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Ideational Power or Political Demand? Tracing the Logics of In-Work Benefit Reforms in France and the United Kingdom (2025)
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Robertson, Ewan (2025): Ideational Power or Political Demand? Tracing the Logics of In-Work Benefit Reforms in France and the United Kingdom. In: Political studies, S. 1-28. DOI:10.1177/00323217251340856
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"In recent decades, numerous welfare states have implemented in-work benefits to ‘make work pay’ and tackle in-work poverty. To explain the adoption and institutionalization of this instrument, studies tend to emphasize either socio-political demand or ideational influences as motivators of policy decisions. However, the relative importance of these causal logics, and the relationship between them, remains ambiguous. To advance this debate, this article examines in-work benefit reforms in two welfare states: France and the United Kingdom. Examining reforms from the late 1990s to the 2010s, findings suggest that policy change and convergence were driven by an ideational rather than a demand-based logic. Reforms were more strongly motivated by the shared interpretive frameworks of policymakers and their instrumental use of ideas (ideational power) rather than the demands of voters and organized interests. This finding on the specific drivers of in-work benefits contributes wider insights into the roles of ideas in public policy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employer Wage Subsidy Caps and Part-Time Work (2023)
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Elvery, Joel A., C. Lockwood Reynolds & Shawn M. Rohlin (2023): Employer Wage Subsidy Caps and Part-Time Work. In: ILR review, Jg. 76, H. 1, S. 189-209. DOI:10.1177/00197939221102865
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"Using tract-level US Census data and triple-difference estimators, the authors test whether firms increase their use of part-time workers when faced with capped wage subsidies. By limiting the maximum subsidy per worker, such subsidies create incentives for firms to increase the share of their payroll that is eligible for the subsidy by increasing use of part-time or low-wage workers. Results suggest that firms located in federal Empowerment Zones in the United States responded to the program’s capped wage subsidies by expanding their use of part-time workers, particularly in locations where the subsidy cap is likely to bind. Results also show a shift toward hiring lower-skill workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Inclusive Monetary Policy: How Tight Labor Markets Facilitate Broad-Based Employment Growth (2022)
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Bergman, Nittai K., David Matsa & Michael Weber (2022): Inclusive Monetary Policy: How Tight Labor Markets Facilitate Broad-Based Employment Growth. (CESifo working paper 9512), München, 45 S.
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"This paper analyzes the heterogeneous effects of monetary policy on workers with differing levels of labor force attachment. Exploiting variation in labor market tightness across metropolitan areas, we show that the employment of populations with lower labor force attachment—Blacks, high school dropouts, and women—is more responsive to expansionary monetary policy in tighter labor markets. The effect builds up over time and is long lasting. We develop a New Keynesian model with heterogeneous workers that rationalizes these results. The model shows that expansionary monetary shocks lead to larger increases in the employment of less attached workers when the central bank follows an average inflation targeting rule and when the Phillips curve is flatter. These findings suggest that, by tightening labor markets, the Federal Reserve’s recent move from a strict to an average inflation targeting framework especially benefits workers with lower labor force attachment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Would Broadening the UI Tax Base Help Low-Income Workers? (2022)
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Duggan, Mark, Audrey Guo & Andrew C. Johnston (2022): Would Broadening the UI Tax Base Help Low-Income Workers? (IZA discussion paper 15020), Bonn, 12 S.
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"The tax base for state unemployment insurance (UI) programs varies significantly in the U.S., from a low of $7,000 annually in California to a high of $52,700 in Washington. Previous research has provided surprisingly little guidance to policy makers regarding the tradeoffs associated with this variation. In this paper, we use 37 years of data for all 50 states and Washington, D.C. to estimate the impact of the UI tax base on labor-market outcomes. We find that the low tax base that exists in California and many other states (and the necessarily higher tax rates that accompany these) negatively affects labor market outcomes for part-time and other low-earning workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The U.S. tax-transfer system and low-income households: Savings, labor supply, and household formation (2022)
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Ortigueira, Salvador & Nawid Siassi (2022): The U.S. tax-transfer system and low-income households: Savings, labor supply, and household formation. In: Review of Economic Dynamics, Jg. 44, S. 184-210. DOI:10.1016/j.red.2021.02.010
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"Eligibility and benefits for anti-poverty income transfers in the U.S. are based on both the means and the household characteristics of applicants, such as their filing status, living arrangement, and marital status. In this paper we develop a dynamic structural model to study the effects of the U.S. tax-transfer system on the decisions of non-college-educated workers with children. In our model workers face uninsurable idiosyncratic risks and make decisions on savings, labor supply, living arrangement, and marital status. We find that the U.S. anti-poverty policy distorts the cohabitation/marriage decision of single mothers, providing incentives to cohabit. We also find quantitatively important effects on savings, and on the labor supply of husbands and wives. Namely, the model yields a U-shaped relationship between the earnings of one spouse and the labor supply of the other spouse, a result that we also find in the data. We show that these U-shaped relationships stem in part from the current design of anti-poverty income programs, and that the introduction of an EITC deduction on the earnings of secondary earners—as proposed in the 21st Century Worker Tax Cut Act—would increase the employment rate of the spouses of workers earning between $15K and $35K, especially of female spouses." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier) ((en))
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Who Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Benefit?: A Monopsony View (2021)
Farmand, Aida; Davis, Owen;Zitatform
Farmand, Aida & Owen Davis (2021): Who Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Benefit? A Monopsony View. (Working paper / Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis 2021-02), New York, NY, 45 S.
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"The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) targets refundable tax credits to low-income workers, incentivizing labor supply and raising the incomes of tens of millions of Americans. One possible consequence of subsidizing low-wage work, however, is to reduce wage growth. A monopsony model of the EITC is developed in order to analyze its impacts on labor market outcomes, which are identified by exploiting variation in state EITC supplements. A first set of results focused on the food service industry find that the EITC increases employment and reduces turnover among young women. Further results suggest that the EITC reduces wages for workers without college degrees. These findings prompt a reconsideration of the redistributive effects of the EITC, particularly for groups like older low-wage workers who face slower wage growth as a result of the policy but do not receive the same level of benefits on average." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Redistribution across Europe: How much and to whom? (2021)
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Hammer, Bernhard, Michael Christl & Silvia De Poli (2021): Redistribution across Europe: How much and to whom? (JRC working papers on taxation and structural reforms 2021-14), Seville, 28 S.
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"Governments face a potential trade-off between provision for the growing population in retirement and the support of working-age households with low income. Using EUROMOD-based microdata from 28 countries, we (a) quantify the redistribution to the pensioner and non-pensioner populations, (b) study the position of net beneficiaries in the overall income distribution and (c) analyse how taxes and benefits affect the working-age population with low income. Our results provide novel insights into the distributive role of tax-benefit systems across Europe. Interestingly, a strong overall redistribution between households is associated with generous pensions for a portion of the retirees but negatively related to support for low-income households." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Conditional Earnings Subsidies for Low Earners (2020)
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Ooghe, Erwin (2020): Conditional Earnings Subsidies for Low Earners. In: The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Jg. 122, H. 2, S. 524-552. DOI:10.1111/sjoe.12358
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"Having low earnings is often not sufficient to be eligible for in-work tax credits. In the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Ireland, for example, eligibility also requires that the number of hours worked is sufficiently high. Similarly, in France and Belgium the hourly wage rate must be sufficiently low. This paper provides a justification for such additional conditions. I analyse Pareto efficient redistribution from high to low ability individuals in a model where labour has several intensive margins. Besides labour hours, also labour effort - a vector of unpleasant, but productive features of labour - is an object of choice. Effort and ability determine the hourly wage rate. I find that conditional earnings subsidies for low earners are optimal: the earning of low earners should be subsidized at the margin, but only if they earn more by working more hours at a sufficiently low wage rate." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Tax credits and in-work poverty in the UK: an analysis of income packages and anti-poverty performance (2019)
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Hick, Rod & Alba Lanau (2019): Tax credits and in-work poverty in the UK. An analysis of income packages and anti-poverty performance. In: Social policy and society, Jg. 18, H. 2, S. 219-236. DOI:10.1017/S1474746418000118
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"This article examines the relationship between tax credits and in-work poverty, drawing on the findings from a major national study on in-work poverty. We present an analysis of (i) the income packages of working families and (ii) the performance of tax credits in relation to anti-poverty objectives, drawing on data from the Households Below Average Income survey between 2004/5 and 2014/15. Our study generates five novel findings, including that tax credits reduce the poverty gap of recipient households by two-thirds; that tax credit cuts post-2010/11 have served to focus payments on single parent families and households with greater numbers of children; and that tax credits make up just one third of the social security income of working households. We argue that understanding in greater depth the interaction between tax credits and income adequacy amongst working families is necessary to provide a firmer foundation for an effective assault on in-work poverty." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Aufkommens- und Verteilungswirkungen eines Entlastungsbetrags für Sozialversicherungsbeiträge bei der Einkommensteuer (SV-Entlastungsbetrag) (2018)
Bach, Stefan; Fischer, Björn; Buslei, Hermann; Harnisch, Michelle;Zitatform
Bach, Stefan, Hermann Buslei, Björn Fischer & Michelle Harnisch (2018): Aufkommens- und Verteilungswirkungen eines Entlastungsbetrags für Sozialversicherungsbeiträge bei der Einkommensteuer (SV-Entlastungsbetrag). (DIW Berlin. Politikberatung kompakt 128), Berlin, III, 33 S.
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"In diesem Forschungsprojekt werden die Aufkommens- und Verteilungswirkungen eines Entlastungsbetrags für Sozialversicherungsbeiträge bei der Einkommensteuer (SV-Entlastungsbetrag) analysiert. Dieser Steuerabzug entlastet niedrige Arbeitseinkommen, indem die Arbeitnehmerbeiträge zu den Sozialversicherungen sowie gleichwertige Vorsorgeaufwendungen bis zu einem Höchstbetrag von der Einkommensteuerschuld abgezogen werden, zum Beispiel bis 50 Euro, 100 Euro oder 150 Euro im Monat. Der SV-Entlastungsbetrag wird als Negativsteuer ausgezahlt, wenn er die Einkommensteuerschuld übersteigt. Der SV-Entlastungsbetrag wird gekürzt um die steuerliche Entlastungswirkung, die durch den Abzug der Sozialversicherungsbeiträge als Vorsorgeaufwendungen entsteht. Dadurch wird er bei steigenden Einkommen abgeschmolzen und nur bis zu mittleren Arbeitseinkommen gewährt, sofern keine Verluste aus anderen Einkünften oder höhere Abzüge das zu versteuernde Einkommen mindern." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Stemming the tide: What have European Union countries done to support low-wage workers in an era of downward wage pressures? (2018)
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Marchal, Sarah & Ive Marx (2018): Stemming the tide. What have European Union countries done to support low-wage workers in an era of downward wage pressures? In: Journal of European social policy, Jg. 28, H. 1, S. 18-33. DOI:10.1177/0958928717704747
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"Governments across the European Union (EU) have been striving to get more people into work while at the same time acknowledging that more needs to be done to 'make work pay'. Yet this drive comes at a time when structural economic shifts are putting pressure on wages, especially of less skilled workers. This article focuses on trends in minimum wages, income taxes and work-related benefits within a selection of 15 EU countries, for the period 2001 - 2012, with three US states included as reference cases. We find evidence for eroding relative minimum wages in various EU countries, yet combined with catch-up growth in the new member states. We also find that governments counteracted eroding minimum wages through direct income support measures, especially for lone parents. Most prevalent among these were substantial declines in income tax liabilities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Labor supply under participation and hours constraints: an extended structural model for policy evaluations (2018)
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Müller, Kai-Uwe, Michael Neumann & Katharina Wrohlich (2018): Labor supply under participation and hours constraints. An extended structural model for policy evaluations. (IZA discussion paper 12003), Bonn, 50 S.
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"The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification of preferences and constraints. Both, preferences and restrictions are allowed to vary by and are related through observed and unobserved characteristics. We distinguish various restrictions mechanisms: labor demand rationing, working hours norms varying across occupations, and insufficient public childcare on the supply side of the market. The effect of these mechanisms is simulated by relaxing different constraints at a time. We apply the empirical frame- work to evaluate an in-work benefit for low-paid parents in the German institutional context. The benefit is supposed to increase work incentives for secondary earners. Based on the structural model we are able to disentangle behavioral reactions into the pure incentive effect and the limiting impact of constraints at the intensive and extensive margin. We find that the in-work benefit for parents substantially increases working hours of mothers of young children, especially when they have a low education. Simulating the effects of restrictions shows their substantial impact on employment of mothers with young children." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The impact of in-work benefits on female labor supply and income distribution in Spain (2017)
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Ayala, Luis & Milagros Paniagua (2017): The impact of in-work benefits on female labor supply and income distribution in Spain. (EUROMOD working paper 2017,17), Colchester: EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, 36 S.
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"In-work benefits (IWBs) have become very common transfer programs that seek to meet both efficiency and equity targets. An expanding literature has assessed the effects of these policies on income distribution and labor supply showing important implications for female labor participation. In this paper, we estimate the distributional and behavioral impacts of a simulated IWB in Spain based on the replacement of the existing working mother tax credit (WMTC) using as a reference the US Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). We simulate the effects of the proposed scheme using EUROMOD and a discrete choice model of labor supply. Our results show that the enhancement of the proposed IWB would have significant and positive effects both in terms of female labor participation and inequality and poverty reduction. The introduction of this IWB would generate a substantial increase in labor participation at the extensive margin and a non-negligible reduction at the intensive margin." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The role of aggregate preferences for labor supply: evidence from low-paid employment (2017)
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Haywood, Luke & Michael Neumann (2017): The role of aggregate preferences for labor supply. Evidence from low-paid employment. (DIW-Diskussionspapiere 1652), Berlin, 56 S.
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"Labor supply in the market for low-paid jobs in Germany is strongly influenced by tax exemptions - even for individuals to whom these exemptions do not apply. We present compelling evidence that an individual's choice set depends on other workers' preferences because firms cater their job offers to aggregate preferences in the market. We estimate an equilibrium job search model which rationalizes the strong earnings bunching at the tax exemption threshold using German administrative data. We then simulate modifications to the tax schedule that remove the discontinuity and thus the bunching at the threshold. Results highlight the indirect costs of (discontinuous) tax policies which are shown to be reinforced by firm responses: Workers who would work anyway are hurt by subsidies benefiting groups who enter the market as a result of tax incentives." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Income support policies for the working poor (2017)
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Marchal, Sarah, Ive Marx & Gerlinde Verbist (2017): Income support policies for the working poor. (IZA discussion paper 10665), Bonn, 16 S.
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"This paper asks what governments in the EU Member States and some US states are doing to support workers on low wages. Using model family simulations, we assess the policy measures currently in place to guarantee an adequate disposable income to working families, taking into account minimum wages, social security contributions, taxes and cash benefits. We show that despite increased efforts over the past decade, disposable incomes of certain types of minimum wage workers still fall well below the EU at-risk-of-poverty thresholds in many countries. Single earners with dependent children are especially at risk of poverty. We discuss the options for making progress." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The impact of in-work benefits on employment and poverty (2017)
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Vandelannoote, Dieter & Gerlinde Verbist (2017): The impact of in-work benefits on employment and poverty. (EUROMOD working paper 2017,04), Colchester, 33 S.
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"This article studies the impact of design characteristics of in-work benefits on employment and poverty in an international comparative setting, taking account of both first and second order labour supply effects. We use the micro-simulation model EUROMOD, which has been enriched with a discrete labour supply model. The analysis is performed for four EU-member states: Belgium, Italy, Poland and Sweden. The results show that design characteristics matter substantially, though the specific effects differ in magnitude across countries, indicating there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Throughout the analysis, numerous trade-offs are uncovered: not only between employment and poverty goals, but also within employment incentives itself (extensive vs. intensive margin). Taking account of behavioural reactions attenuates the impact on poverty outcomes, signalling the importance of bringing these effects into the empirical analysis." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Arbeitsmarktsituation von Aufstockern: Vor allem Minijobber suchen nach einer anderen Arbeit (2015)
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Bruckmeier, Kerstin, Johannes Eggs, Carina Sperber, Mark Trappmann & Ulrich Walwei (2015): Arbeitsmarktsituation von Aufstockern: Vor allem Minijobber suchen nach einer anderen Arbeit. (IAB-Kurzbericht 19/2015), Nürnberg, 8 S.
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"Die positive Beschäftigungsentwicklung in Deutschland hält an und der Arbeitsmarkt ist in einer guten Grundverfassung. Dennoch ist die Zahl der Menschen, die gleichzeitig Leistungen der Grundsicherung und ein Erwerbseinkommen erhalten, in den letzten Jahren nahezu unverändert geblieben. Diese erwerbstätigen Arbeitslosengeld-II-Bezieher, die sogenannten Aufstocker, stehen im besonderen Fokus von Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik. Die Haushaltsbefragung 'Arbeitsmarkt und Soziale Sicherung' zeigt für das Jahr 2013, dass die Tätigkeiten von Aufstockern oft durch eine geringe Stundenzahl und/oder geringe Stundenlöhne gekennzeichnet sind. Ihre Beschäftigungssituation könnte sich verbessern, wenn sie nach einer anderen oder weiteren Tätigkeit suchen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Breaking the low pay, no pay cycle: the effects of the UK employment retention and advancement programme (2015)
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Hendra, Richard, James Riccio, Richard Dorsett & Philip Robins (2015): Breaking the low pay, no pay cycle. The effects of the UK employment retention and advancement programme. In: IZA journal of labor policy, Jg. 4, S. 1-32. DOI:10.1186/s40173-015-0042-9
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"This paper presents the final economic results of the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) programme. ERA's distinctive combination of post-employment advisory support and financial incentives was designed to help low-income individuals who entered work sustain employment and advance in the labour market. ERA targeted three groups. ERA produced short-term earnings gains for two lone parent target groups. However, these effects generally faded after the programme ended, largely because the control group caught up with the ERA group. For the New Deal 25 Plus target group (mostly long term unemployed men), ERA produced modest but sustained increases in employment and earnings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Dignity and dreams: what the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) means to low-income families (2015)
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Sykes, Jennifer, Katrin Križ, Kathryn Edin & Sarah Halpern-Meekin (2015): Dignity and dreams: what the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) means to low-income families. In: American Sociological Review, Jg. 80, H. 2, S. 243-267. DOI:10.1177/0003122414551552
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"Money has meaning that shapes its uses and social significance, including the monies low-income families draw on for survival: wages, welfare, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). This study, based on in-depth interviews with 115 low-wage EITC recipients, reveals the EITC is an unusual type of government transfer. Recipients of the EITC say they value the debt relief this government benefit brings. However, they also perceive it as a just reward for work, which legitimizes a temporary increase in consumption. Furthermore, unlike other means-tested government transfers, the credit is seen as a springboard for upward mobility. Thus, by conferring dignity and spurring dreams, the EITC enhances feelings of citizenship and social inclusion." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Niedriglohn und prekäre Beschäftigung in Deutschland (2014)
Gehl, Günter;Zitatform
Gehl, Günter (2014): Niedriglohn und prekäre Beschäftigung in Deutschland. (Forum: Politik 29), Weimar: Bertuch, 137 S.
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"Nicht erst seit den sogenannten Hartz-Reformen zwischen 2003 und 2005, sondern bereits wesentlich länger wird über die Thematik Niedriglohn und prekäre Beschäftigung in Deutschland diskutiert. Diese Publikation, die im Auftrag der AKTION ARBEIT im Bistum Trier erstellt worden ist, will zur Klärung der Begriffe 'Niedriglohn' und 'prekäre Beschäftigung' beitragen, die in ihrem Bedeutungsgehalt umstritten sind." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Matthew runs Amok: The Belgian service voucher scheme (2014)
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Marx, Ive & Dieter Vandelannoote (2014): Matthew runs Amok: The Belgian service voucher scheme. (IZA discussion paper 8717), Bonn, 20 S.
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"In response to structurally poor job prospects for the least skilled, a number of European countries have introduced measures to boost domestic services employment. No country has done so with more fervour than Belgium. Belgian consumers can use the so-called 'Service Vouchers' to pay for a limited but high volume range of domestic services like cleaning, washing and ironing. It is probably the most heavily subsidized scheme of its kind in Europe - more than 70 per cent of the cost of services rendered to individual consumers is borne by the state. Not surprisingly, the scheme has proved tremendously popular. This contribution argues that the scheme is facing a number of particular problems and challenges. While initially many of the people employed under the scheme had experienced past unemployment spells, new recruitment has increasingly drawn on the ranks of those already in work. Furthermore, entrapment in service voucher jobs is rife, going against the purported objective of the scheme in offering a stepping stone to the regular market. Another worrying aspect is that there is some evidence of partial displacement of regular skilled workers. The principal winners are the generally highly educated, relatively well-earning service voucher users who can now outsource domestic chores at a bargain price in the regular market, gaining leisure and care time as well as getting in return more trustworthy, reliable and better quality services than would otherwise be obtainable." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The politics of the new welfare state (2013)
Bonoli, Giuliano ; Natali, David; Häusermann, Silja ; Hemerijck, Anton ; Clegg, Daniel ; Jenson, Jane ; Davidsson, Johan B.; Keune, Maarten ; Emmenegger, Patrick ; Naumann, Ingela ; Clasen, Jochen ; Palier, Bruno ; Ebbinghaus, Bernhard ; Crouch, Colin; Ferrera, Maurizio ;Zitatform
(2013): The politics of the new welfare state. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 316 S.
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"Since the early 1990s, European welfare states have undergone substantial changes, in terms of objectives, areas of intervention, and instruments. Traditional programmes, such as old age pensions have been curtailed throughout the continent, while new functions have been taken up. At present, welfare states are expected to help non-working people back into employment, to complement work income for the working poor, to reconcile work and family life, to promote gender equality, to support child development, and to provide social services for an ageing society. The welfare settlement that is emerging at the beginning of the 21st century is nonetheless very different in terms of functions and instruments from the one inherited from the last century. This book seeks to offer a better understanding of the new welfare settlement, and to analyze the factors that have shaped the recent transformation." (Publisher information, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Giuliano Bonoli, David Natali: The Politics of the 'New' Welfare States: Analysing Reforms in Western Europe (3-17);
Jane Jenson: A New Politics for the Social Investment Perspective: Objectives, Instruments, and Areas of Intervention in Welfare Regimes (21-44);
Colin Crouch, Maarten Keune: The Governance of Economic Uncertainty: Beyond the 'New Social Risks' Analysis (45-67);
Anton Hemerijck: Stress-testing the New Welfare State (68-90);
Giuliano Bonoll: Blame Avoidance and Credit Claiming Revisited (93-110);
Silja Häusermann: The Politics of Old and New Social Policies (111-132);
Jochen Clasen, Daniel Clegg: Adapting Labour Market Policy to a Transformed Employment Structure: The Politics of 'Triple Integration' (135-157);
Ingela Naumann: Childcare Politics in the 'New' Welfare State: Class, Religion, and Gender in the Shaping of Political Agendas (158-181);
Bernhard Ebbinghaus: Europe's Transformations Towards a Renewed Pension System (182-205);
Johan B. Davidsson, Patrick Emmenegger: Insider-Outsider Dynamics and the Reform of Job Security Legislation (206-229);
Bruno Palier: Tuming Vice into Vice: How Bismarckian Welfare States have Gone from Unsustainability to Dualization (233-255);
Maurizio Ferrera: The New Spatial Politics of Welfare in the EU (256-283);
Giuliano Bonoli, David Natali: Multidimensional Transformations in the Early 21st Century Welfare States (287-306).Weiterführende Informationen
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The Earned Income Tax Credit, health, and happiness (2013)
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Boyd-Swan, Casey, Chris M. Herbst, John Ifcher & Homa Zarghamee (2013): The Earned Income Tax Credit, health, and happiness. (IZA discussion paper 7261), Bonn, 41 S.
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"This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In particular, we use data from the National Survey of Families and Households to study the impact of the 1990 federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being. The identification strategy relies on a difference-in-differences framework to estimate intent-to-treat effects for the post-reform period. Our results suggest that the 1990 EITC reform generated sizeable health benefits for low-skilled mothers. Such women experienced lower depression symptomatology, an increase in self-reported happiness, and improved self-efficacy relative to their childless counterparts. Consistent with previous work, we find that married mothers captured most of the health benefits, with unmarried mothers' health changing very little following the 1990 EITC reform." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Aufstocker im SGB II: Steinig und lang - der Weg aus dem Leistungsbezug (2013)
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Bruckmeier, Kerstin, Johannes Eggs, Carina Himsel, Mark Trappmann & Ulrich Walwei (2013): Aufstocker im SGB II: Steinig und lang - der Weg aus dem Leistungsbezug. (IAB-Kurzbericht 14/2013), Nürnberg, 8 S.
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"Trotz der europäischen Schuldenkrise ist der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt bis zuletzt stabil geblieben. Die Erwerbstätigkeit legt immer noch zu und der Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit hält sich in engen Grenzen. Mit der deutlich verbesserten Arbeitsmarktlage hat auch die Zahl der Personen abgenommen, die Leistungen der Grundsicherung beziehen. Trotzdem gibt es viele Menschen, die gleichzeitig Erwerbseinkommen und Transferleistungen erhalten, die sogenannten Aufstocker. Hier wird untersucht, warum es für sie schwer ist, den Leistungsbezug zu beenden, und wo es Ansatzpunkte gibt, die Aufstockern einen Ausstieg aus der Grundsicherung erleichtern können." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Can income support for part-time workers serve as a stepping-stone to regular jobs? An application to young long-term unemployed women (2013)
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Cockx, Bart, Christian Goebel & Stéphane Robin (2013): Can income support for part-time workers serve as a stepping-stone to regular jobs? An application to young long-term unemployed women. In: Empirical economics, Jg. 44, H. 1, S. 189-229. DOI:10.1007/s00181-010-0357-8
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"This article investigates whether income support for low-paid part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, 'regular' employment. Our analysis uses a sample of long-term unemployed young women. Observing their labour market histories from 1998 to 2001, we implement the 'timing of events' method to identify the treatment effect. Our results suggest that participation in the policy has a significantly positive effect on the transition to regular employment. Participation reduced the survivor rate in unemployment by 27% points 1 year after the start of the programme. The time spent in the programme did not affect the transition to regular employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The employment effects of low-wage subsidies (2013)
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Huttunen, Kristiina, Jukka Pirttilä & Roope Uusitalo (2013): The employment effects of low-wage subsidies. In: Journal of Public Economics, Jg. 97, H. January, S. 49-60. DOI:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2012.09.007
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"Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled but the empirical evidence on their effects is still scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at the employers of older, full-time, low-wage workers. The system's clear eligibility criteria open up an opportunity for a reliable estimation of the causal impacts of the subsidy scheme. Our results indicate that the subsidy system had no effect on the employment rate or wages of the eligible groups, but it increased slightly working hours among those already at work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effect of receiving supplementary UI benefits on unemployment duration (2013)
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Kyyrä, Tomi, Pierpaolo Parrotta & Michael Rosholm (2013): The effect of receiving supplementary UI benefits on unemployment duration. In: Labour economics, Jg. 21, H. April, S. 122-133. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2013.02.002
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"We consider the consequences of working part-time and receiving supplementary benefits for part-time unemployment in the Danish labor market. Following the timing-of-events approach we estimate causal effects of part-time work with supplementary benefits on the hazard rate out of unemployment insurance benefit receipt. We find evidence of a negative in-treatment effect and a positive post-treatment effect, both of which vary across different groups of individuals. The resulting net effect on the expected unemployment duration is positive for some groups (e.g. married women) and negative for others (e.g. young workers)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Hartz IV - Bedürftigkeit von Erwerbstätigen (2012)
Adamy, Wilhelm;Zitatform
Adamy, Wilhelm (2012): Hartz IV - Bedürftigkeit von Erwerbstätigen. Berlin, 17 S.
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"Gut zwei Milliarden Euro pro Jahr muss der Bund ausgeben, um Geringverdienern mit Vollzeitjobs ein gesellschaftliches Existenzminimum zu garantieren. Zusammen mit den Zuschüssen für Teilzeitbeschäftigte sind es sogar vier Milliarden Euro, die der Staat über Hartz IV beisteuerte. Das zeigt eine aktuelle Studie des DGB. Niedriglöhne sind nicht nur Zündstoff für den Bund, sondern auch für die Kommunen. Denn Städte und Gemeinden müssen den Großteil der Wohnungskosten auch für jene übernehmen, die trotz eines Arbeitsplatzes auf Hartz IV angewiesen sind." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Did the Work Opportunity Tax Credit cause subsidized worker substitution? (2012)
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Ajilore, Olugbenga (2012): Did the Work Opportunity Tax Credit cause subsidized worker substitution? In: Economic Development Quarterly, Jg. 26, H. 3, S. 231-237. DOI:10.1177/0891242412453306
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"This article questions whether the implementation of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) created an incentive for employers to substitute subsidized workers for incumbent workers. To see if this substitution occurs, the author uses a differences-in-differences methodology to test whether the implementation of the WOTC caused both an increase in employment from a representative target group and a decrease in employment of a group that is a close substitute for members of the target group. The author finds no evidence that subsidized worker substitution occurred in the period after the WOTC was implemented. There is evidence that the WOTC is effective in increasing the employment rates of long-term welfare recipients." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employment, hours of work and the optimal taxation of low income families (2012)
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Blundell, Richard & Andrew Shephard (2012): Employment, hours of work and the optimal taxation of low income families. In: The Review of Economic Studies, Jg. 79, H. 2, S. 481-510. DOI:10.1093/restud/rdr034
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"The optimal design of low-income support is examined using a structural labour supply model. The approach incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work, childcare costs and the detailed non-convexities of the tax and transfer system. The analysis considers purely Pareto improving reforms and also optimal design under social welfare functions with different degrees of inequality aversion. We explore the gains from tagging and also examine the case for the use of hours-contingent payments. Using the tax schedule for lone parents in the U.K. as our policy environment, the results point to a reformed non-linear tax schedule with tax credits only optimal for low earners. The results also suggest a welfare improving role for tagging according to child age and for hours-contingent payments, although the case for the latter is mitigated when hours cannot be monitored or recorded accurately by the tax authorities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Entlastung von Niedrigverdienern durch progressive Sozialversicherungsbeiträge? (2012)
Bäcker, Gerhard; Jansen, Andreas;Zitatform
Bäcker, Gerhard & Andreas Jansen (2012): Entlastung von Niedrigverdienern durch progressive Sozialversicherungsbeiträge? In: Sozialer Fortschritt, Jg. 61, H. 8, S. 173-182. DOI:10.3790/sfo.61.8.173
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"Im Lichte einer in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren zunehmenden Niedriglohnproblematik befasst sich der Beitrag mit unterschiedlichen Modellen zur Verbesserung der Einkommenssituation in den unteren Einkommenssegmenten. Im Fokus stehen dabei verschiedene Modellvorschläge, die die Einkommenslage im unteren Beschäftigungssegment primär von der Abgabenseite her, d. h. durch eine Reduzierung der Sozialversicherungsabgaben (entweder nur arbeitnehmerseitig oder insgesamt), zu verbessern suchen. Im Detail wird dabei das Progressiv-Modell der Partei Bündnis 90 /Die Grünen sowie das so genannte Braunschweiger Progressionsmodell, das auf einen Entwurf des SPD-Bezirkes Braunschweig zurückgeht analysiert. Neben einer eingehenden Analyse der Beschäftigungs- und Verteilungswirkungen der beiden Modelle wird im Rahmen einer eigenen Modellrechnung auf Basis der Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels von 2009 eine Abschätzung der potenziellen Kosten der jeweiligen Modellvorschläge vorgenommen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Time-limited in-work benefits in the UK: a review of recent evidence (2012)
Chowdry, Haroon;Zitatform
Chowdry, Haroon (2012): Time-limited in-work benefits in the UK. A review of recent evidence. In: National Institute Economic Review, Jg. 219, H. 1, S. R53-R64. DOI:10.1177/002795011221900106
Abstract
"This paper reviews three UK-based welfare-to-work programmes featuring time-limited financial incentives to leave out-of-work benefits for employment. The policies considered are (i) the Employment Retention and Advancement demonstration, aimed at lone parents and the long-term unemployed; (ii) In-Work Credit, aimed at lone parents on welfare; (iii) Pathways to Work, aimed at recipients of incapacity benefits. I illustrate the difficulties in extrapolating from specific findings to general policy-relevant conclusions. Finally, I depict the challenge facing evaluators in future and point to the directions in which evaluation will need to develop if it is to contribute more fully to policy-relevant evaluation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The 1993 EITC expansion and low-skilled single mothers' welfare use decision (2012)
Chyi, Hau;Zitatform
Chyi, Hau (2012): The 1993 EITC expansion and low-skilled single mothers' welfare use decision. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 44, H. 13, S. 1717-1736. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2011.554372
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"Previous studies on low-skilled single mothers focus generally either on the binary welfare use or work decision. However, work among welfare participants has increased steadily since the mid-1990s. This study estimates the role of the 1993 Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expansion on the decline of welfare caseloads using a bivariate probit model. Using monthly Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) information, I find that the 1993 EITC expansion has at least the same effect on reducing welfare use as the welfare reform initiatives. Moreover, the elasticity estimates indicate that single mothers, especially those who were not employed and dependent solely on welfare before the expansion, were the most responsive to the policy initiatives. Finally, the increase in work among welfare participants is due to the relative ineffectiveness of the policies in reducing the net population of those who are on welfare and work simultaneously." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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In-work benefits for married couples: an ex-ante evaluation of EITC and WTC policies in Italy (2012)
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De Luca, Giuseppe, Claudio Rossetti & Daniela Vuri (2012): In-work benefits for married couples. An ex-ante evaluation of EITC and WTC policies in Italy. (IZA discussion paper 6739), Bonn, 41 S.
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"This paper investigates labor supply and redistributive effects of in-work benefits for Italian married couples using a tax-benefit microsimulation model and a multi-sectoral discrete choice model of labor supply. We consider two in-work benefit schemes following the key principles of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Working Tax Credit (WTC) existing in the US and the UK, respectively. The standard design of these in-work benefits is however augmented with a new benefit premium for two-earner households in order to overcome the well-known disincentive effects that these welfare instruments may generate on secondary earners. In simulation, the proposed in-work benefits are financed through the abolition of Italian family allowances for dependent employees and contingent workers thus ensuring tax revenue neutrality. We show that our EITC and WTC reforms have strong positive effects on labor supply of wives, weak negative effects on labor supply of husbands, and strong positive effects on equity. The EITC is more effective than the WTC in boosting employment of wives, while the WTC is more effective than the EITC in fighting poverty. In both schemes, the trade-off between labor supply incentives and redistributive effects is crucially related to the new benefit premium for two-earner households. Other things being equal, tax revenue neutrality implies that a higher value of this policy coefficient yields stronger incentive effects and weaker redistributive effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Governance des Einkommensmix: Geringfügige Beschäftigung im ALG-II-Bezug (2012)
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Dingeldey, Irene, Peter Sopp & Alexandra Wagner (2012): Governance des Einkommensmix: Geringfügige Beschäftigung im ALG-II-Bezug. In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Jg. 65, H. 1, S. 32-40. DOI:10.5771/0342-300X-2012-1-32
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"Ein wachsender Anteil der ALG-II-Beziehenden übt einen Minijob aus. Der Beitrag liefert eine Analyse der Erwerbs- und Lebenssituation dieser Personengruppe mit Daten des Panels 'Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung' (PASS). Es wird gezeigt, dass Minijobber im SGB II im Vergleich zu geringfügig Beschäftigten ohne aufstockenden ALG-II-Bezug niedrigere Verdienste (monatlich wie auch pro Stunde) sowie längere Arbeitszeiten haben und damit einer spezifischen Lohndiskriminierung unterliegen. Die Daten legen nahe, dass Minijobs nur für einen relativ kleinen Teil der Betroffenen eine 'Brückenfunktion' hin zu Existenz sichernden Beschäftigungsverhältnissen haben und letztlich aus dem Transferbezug herausführen. Minijobs scheinen längerfristig eher von ALG-II-Beziehenden mit geringen (subjektiven) Ausstiegschancen aus dem Transferbezug ausgeübt zu werden, um die finanzielle Situation der Bedarfsgemeinschaft zu verbessern. Die Betroffenen fühlen sich stark depriviert und von gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe ausgeschlossen. Reformvorschläge sollten daher weniger auf die 'Anreizfunktion' der Freibetragsgrenzen zielen als vielmehr auf eine Verbesserung von Qualifikation, um den Übergang in reguläre Beschäftigung zu fördern." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Evaluation of the Swedish earned income tax credit (2012)
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Edmark, Karin, Che-Yuan Liang, Eva Mörk & Hakan Selin (2012): Evaluation of the Swedish earned income tax credit. (Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation. Working paper 2012,01), Uppsala, 39 S.
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"Over the last twenty years we have seen an increasing use of in-work tax subsidies to encourage labor supply among low-income groups. In Sweden, a non-targeted earned income tax credit was introduced in 2007, and was reinforced in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The stated motive of the reform was to boost employment; in particular to provide incentives for individuals to go from unemployment to, at least, part-time work. In this paper we try to analyze the extensive margin labor supply effects of the Swedish earned income tax credit reform up to 2008. For identification we exploit the fact that the size of the tax credit, as well as the resulting average tax rate, is a function of the municipality of residence and income if working. However, throughout the analysis we find placebo effects that are similar in size to the estimated reform effects. In addition, the results are sensitive with respect to how we define employment, which is especially true when we analyze different subgroups such as men and women, married and singles. Our conclusion is that the identifying variation is too small and potentially endogenous and that it is therefore not possible to use this variation to perform a quasi-experimental evaluation of the Swedish EITC-reform." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Alternativen zu Mini- und Midijobs? Die Beispiele Frankreich und Vereinigtes Königreich (2012)
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Herzog-Stein, Alexander & Werner Sesselmeier (2012): Alternativen zu Mini- und Midijobs? Die Beispiele Frankreich und Vereinigtes Königreich. In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Jg. 65, H. 1, S. 41-49. DOI:10.5771/0342-300X-2012-1-41
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"Mit den 2003 eingeführten Minijobs waren die Zielvorstellungen verbunden, näher an die Normalarbeitsverhältnisse heranzurücken, zudem Übergänge zu diesen zu schaffen, aber auch im Unterschied zu den Normalarbeitsverhältnissen so attraktiv für die Arbeitnehmer zu sein, dass damit schattenwirtschaftliche Tätigkeiten abgebaut würden. Trotz des hohen Umfangs an Minijobs scheint man den damit verbundenen Zielen nicht näher gekommen zu sein. Der Beitrag untersucht vergleichbare Instrumente im Vereinigten Königreich und in Frankreich. In beiden Ländern existieren explizite Lohnzuschüsse, die im Unterschied zu Deutschland im Einkommensteuersystem verankert sind, in Kombination mit Förderschwellen und Mindestlöhnen. Die vorliegenden Untersuchungen deuten darauf hin, dass die Brückenfunktion mit dieser Instrumentenkombination effektiver funktioniert als die Minijob-Regelungen in Deutschland." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Selbstständige in der Grundsicherung: Viel Arbeit für wenig Geld (2012)
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Koller, Lena, Nadja Neder, Helmut Rudolph & Mark Trappmann (2012): Selbstständige in der Grundsicherung: Viel Arbeit für wenig Geld. (IAB-Kurzbericht 22/2012), Nürnberg, 12 S.
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"Von den erwerbstätigen Arbeitslosengeld-II-Empfängern, den sogenannten Aufstockern, üben fast zehn Prozent eine selbstständige Tätigkeit aus. Das zeigt, dass auch selbstständige Tätigkeiten nicht immer ein bedarfsdeckendes Einkommen sichern. Da die Zahl der selbstständigen Aufstocker in den letzten Jahren stetig zugenommen hat, ist diese bisher relativ wenig beachtete Gruppe Gegenstand des Berichts: Wer sind die selbstständigen Aufstocker, was und wie viel arbeiten sie und welche Einkünfte erzielen sie daraus?" (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Combating in-work poverty in continental Europe: an investigation using the Belgian case (2012)
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Marx, Ive, Josefine Vanhille & Gerlinde Verbist (2012): Combating in-work poverty in continental Europe. An investigation using the Belgian case. In: Journal of social policy, Jg. 41, H. 1, S. 19-41. DOI:10.1017/S0047279411000341
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"Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a policy issue only recently in most continental European countries. Policies implemented in the United States and the United Kingdom, most notably in-work benefit schemes, are much discussed. This article argues that if it comes to preventing and alleviating poverty among workers, both the policy options and constraints facing Continental European policymakers are fundamentally different from those facing Anglo-Saxon policymakers. Consequently, policies that work in one setting cannot be simply emulated elsewhere. We present microsimulation derived results for Belgium to illustrate some of these points. Policy options discussed and simulated include: higher minimum wages, reductions in employee social security contributions, tax relief for low-paid workers and the implementation of a stylised version of the British Working Tax Credit. The latter measure has the strongest impact on in-work poverty, but in settings where wages are compressed, as in Belgium, a severe trade-off between coverage and budgetary cost presents itself. The article concludes that looking beyond targeted measures to universal benefits and support for employment of carers may be important components of an overall policy package to tackle in-work poverty." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Mind the gap: Net incomes of minimum wage workers in the EU and the US (2012)
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Marx, Ive, Sarah Marchal & Brian Nolan (2012): Mind the gap: Net incomes of minimum wage workers in the EU and the US. (IZA discussion paper 6510), Bonn, 25 S.
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"This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a number of countries, net income packages at minimum wage level reach or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country. For lone parents and sole breadwinners with a partner and children to support, net income packages at minimum wage are below this threshold almost everywhere, usually by a wide margin. This is the case despite shifts over the past decade towards tax relief and additional income support provisions for low-paid workers. We argue that there appear to be limits to what minimum wage policies alone can achieve in the fight against in-work poverty. The route of raising minimum wages to eliminate poverty among workers solely reliant on it seems to be inherently constrained, especially in countries where the distance between minimum and average wage levels is already comparatively small and where relative poverty thresholds are mostly a function of the dual-earner living standards. In order to fight in-work poverty new policy routes need to be explored. The paper offers a brief discussion of possible alternatives and cautions against 'one size fits all' policy solutions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The impact of a time-limited, targeted in-work benefit in the medium-term: an evaluation of In Work Credit (2012)
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Mike Brewer, Mike, James Browne, Haroon Chowdry & Claire Crawford (2012): The impact of a time-limited, targeted in-work benefit in the medium-term: an evaluation of In Work Credit. (ISER working paper 2012-04), Colchester, 41 S.
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"Conventional in-work benefits (IWB) are means-tested, open to all workers with sufficiently low income, and usually paid without a time-limit. This paper evaluates an IWB with an alternative design that was aimed at lone parents in the UK and piloted in one third of the country, and that featured a time-limit, and was paid conditional on previous receipt of welfare. It increased flows off welfare and into work, and these positive effects did not diminish when recipients reached the 12 month time-limit for receiving the supplement. Job retention of recipients was good, but this cannot be attributed to the IWB." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Aktivierung in die Prekarität: Folgen der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland (2012)
Scherschel, Karin; Booth, Melanie;Zitatform
Scherschel, Karin & Melanie Booth (2012): Aktivierung in die Prekarität. Folgen der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland. In: K. Scherschel, P. Streckeisen & M. Krenn (Hrsg.) (2012): Neue Prekarität : die Folgen aktivierender Arbeitsmarktpolitik - europäische Länder im Vergleich (International labour studies, 02, Internationale Arbeitsstudien, 02), S. 17-46.
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"Wir wollen im Folgenden zunächst die arbeitsmarktpolitischen Entwicklungen, die den Hartz-Reformen vorausgegangen sind, kurz skizzieren (1). Durch die Gegenüberstellung von aktiver und aktivierender Arbeitsmarktpolitik werden die Unterschiede beider Programmatiken sichtbar. In einem zweiten Schritt gehen wir auf die zentralen Neuregelungen ein, die im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen unter der Formel Fördern und Fordern eingeführt wurden (2). Da der Rückgang der Erwerbslosenzahlen dem Erfolg der Hartz-Reformen Recht zu geben scheint, wollen wir in einem dritten Schritt entlang der Diskussion ausgewählter Daten die Erwerbslosen- und Beschäftigungsentwicklung in Deutschland genauer analysieren und dabei ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die Frage nach dem realen Beschäftigungserfolg der Hartz-Gesetzgebung legen (3). Eine eingehendere Betrachtung der Beschäftigungsentwicklung und der Entwicklung im Leistungsbezug zeigt, dass der Erfolg der Hartz-Reformen einem Pyrrhussieg gleichkommt. Der Beitrag schließt mit einer Bilanz (4)." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Expanding New York State's Earned Income Tax Credit Programme: the effect on work, income and poverty (2012)
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Schmeiser, Maximilian D. (2012): Expanding New York State's Earned Income Tax Credit Programme. The effect on work, income and poverty. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 44, H. 16, S. 2035-2050. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2011.558478
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"Given its favourable employment incentives and ability to target the working poor, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has become the primary antipoverty programme at both the federal and state levels. However, when evaluating the effect of EITC programmes on income and poverty, governments generally calculate the effect using simple accounting, where the value of the state or federal EITC benefit is added to a person's income. These calculations omit the behavioural incentives created by the existence of these programmes, the corresponding effect on labour supply and hours worked, and therefore the actual effect on income and poverty. This article simulates the full effect of an expansion of the New York State EITC benefit on employment, hours worked, income, poverty and programme expenditures. These results are then compared to those omitting labour supply effects. Relative to estimates excluding labour supply effects, the preferred behavioural results show that an expansion of the New York State EITC increases employment by an additional 14?244 persons, labour earnings by an additional $95.8 million, family income by an additional $84.5 million, decreases poverty by an additional 56?576 persons and increases costs to the State by $29.7 million." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Low-wage lessons (2012)
Schmitt, John;Zitatform
Schmitt, John (2012): Low-wage lessons. Washington, DC, 13 S.
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"Over the last two decades, high - and, in some countries, rising - rates of low-wage work have emerged as a major political concern. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in 2009, about one-fourth of U.S. workers were in low-wage jobs, defined as earning less than two-thirds of the national median hourly wage. About one-fifth of workers in the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, and Germany were receiving low wages by the same definition. In all but a handful of the rich OECD countries, more than 10 percent of the workforce was in a low-wage job.
If low-wage jobs act as a stepping stone to higher-paying work, then even a relatively high share of low-wage work may not be a serious social problem. If, however, as appears to be the case in much of the wealthy world, low-wage work is a persistent and recurring state for many workers, then low-wages may contribute to broader income and wealth inequality and constitute a threat to social cohesion. This report draws five lessons on low-wage work from the recent experiences of the United States and other rich economies in the OECD." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Bewährung der Grundsicherung in der Beschäftigungskrise und Reformdiskussion (2012)
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Steinke, Joß & Ulrich Walwei (2012): Bewährung der Grundsicherung in der Beschäftigungskrise und Reformdiskussion. In: W. Hanesch & H. Fukawa (Hrsg.) (2012): Das letzte Netz sozialer Sicherung in der Bewährung : ein deutsch-japanischer Vergleich, S. 293-316.
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"Mehr als fünf Jahre nach der Einführung des SGB II legt der Beitrag eine auf Forschungsbefunden gestützte Bestandsaufnahme vor, die am aktuellen Rand auch erste Erfahrungen mit einer Phase des wirtschaftlichen Abschwungs einschließt. Der Beitrag beginnt mit einer Darstellung der wichtigen Fakten. Dazu gehören die Entwicklung, die Strukturen und die Dynamik des Hilfebezugs im SGB II. Im Anschluss geht es um die bisher vorliegenden Erkenntnisse zu den Instrumenten und Dienstleistungen im SGB II, also der Frage was funktioniert und gewirkt hat und was eher weniger. Ein zentrales Element des Reformpaketes 'Hartz IV' ist die Aktivierung der Hilfebedürftigen. Aus diesem Grund soll genauer darauf eingegangen werden, zu welchen Zugeständnissen Leistungsbezieher bereit sind, um eine Beschäftigung zu bekommen. Rechnung trägt der Beitrag auch der beträchtlichen Heterogenität der Hilfebedürftigen. Sie kommt u.a. darin zum Ausdruck, dass in einem nennenswerten Umfang Erwerbstätige mit einem nicht Existenz sichernden Einkommen zu den Empfängern des Arbeitslosengelds II gehören. Diesem im politischen Raum kontrovers diskutierten Themenfeld wird ein weiterer Abschnitt gewidmet. Vor dem Fazit soll schließlich die von der neuen Bundesregierung in Aussicht gestellte Reformagenda diskutiert und die damit verbundenen Möglichkeiten und Grenzen erörtert werden." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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A politico-economic analysis of minimum wages and wage subsidies (2011)
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Adam, Antonis & Thomas Moutos (2011): A politico-economic analysis of minimum wages and wage subsidies. In: Economics Letters, Jg. 110, H. 3, S. 171-173. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2010.11.029
Abstract
"This paper constructs a political economy model in which minimum wages are determined according to majority voting. Using the minimum wage scheme as the status quo, we show that the replacement of minimum wages by wage subsidies is not likely to receive political support unless it is supplemented by increased taxation of profits (after-tax profits are also likely to increase)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Time binds: US antipoverty policies, poverty, and the well-being of single mothers (2011)
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Albelda, Randy (2011): Time binds: US antipoverty policies, poverty, and the well-being of single mothers. In: Feminist economics, Jg. 17, H. 4, S. 189-214. DOI:10.1080/13545701.2011.602355
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"Many US antipoverty programs and measures assume mothers have little, intermittent, or no employment and therefore have sufficient time to care for children, perform household tasks, and apply for and maintain eligibility for these programs. Employment-promotion policies directed toward low-income mothers since the late 1980s have successfully increased their time in the labor force. However, low wages and insufficient employer-based benefits often leave employed single mothers with inadequate material resources to support families and less time to care for their children. The lack of consideration given to the value of poor women's time in both the administration and benefit levels of antipoverty government support, as well as the measures used to calculate poverty, place more binds on poor and low-income mothers' time. Ignoring these binds causes researchers and policymakers to overestimate single mothers' well-being and reduces the effectiveness of the policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do new labour activation policies work?: a descriptive analysis of the German Hartz reforms (2011)
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Alber, Jens & Jan Paul Heisig (2011): Do new labour activation policies work? A descriptive analysis of the German Hartz reforms. (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. Discussion papers SP 1 2011-211), Berlin, 54 S.
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"Die von der rot-grünen Bundesregierung nach der Jahrtausendwende durchgesetzten Hartz-Reformen sind Teil eines allgemeinen Musters der Aktivierungspolitik, die von mehreren sozialdemokratischen Regierungen Europas unter dem Stichwort 'new labour' betrieben wurde. Das Ziel dieser Reformpolitik war es, die Abhängigkeit von staatlichen Transferzahlungen zu mindern und das Beschäftigungsniveau zu steigern, indem Arbeit im Niedriglohnsektor mit Hilfe von Subventionen attraktiver gemacht und der Sozialstaat von einer reaktiven Instanz des sozialen Schutzes zu einem befähigenden Instrument sozialer Investition umgebaut wurde. Die deutsche Variante dieser Politik schaffte die einkommensbezogenen Leistungen für Langzeitarbeitslose ab, fusionierte die soziale Sicherung der Arbeitslosen teilweise mit der Sozialhilfe und erhöhte den Aktivierungsdruck auf die Leistungsempfänger durch eine Politik des 'Forderns und Förderns', die neue Sanktionsmöglichkeiten mit verbesserten Bildungs- und Vermittlungsdiensten verband. Auf der Grundlage einer Beschreibung der wichtigsten institutionellen Reformen zeigen wir, dass die an Bedürftigkeitstests gebundene Grundsicherung heute die bei weitem häufigste Transferzahlung für Arbeitslose darstellt. Das Beschäftigungsniveau ist seit den Reformen insbesondere im Niedriglohnsektor beträchtlich gestiegen. Da vor allem diverse Formen atypischer Beschäftigung zugenommen haben, zählt ein wachsender Teil der Erwerbstätigen zur Gruppe der arbeitenden Armen, die ihr Erwerbseinkommen mit Leistungen der Grundsicherung aufstocken. Auf der Basis von SOEP-Daten zeigen wir, dass die arbeitenden Armen nicht nur zufriedener, sondern auch in vielfältiger Weise besser sozial integriert sind als vergleichbare nicht arbeitende Arme. Wie wir am Beispiel der Lebenszufriedenheit von Männern zeigen, hängen die positiven Effekte der Erwerbstätigkeit allerdings entscheidend von der Entlohnung und anderen Aspekten der Arbeitsplatzqualität ab. Die Wohlfahrtsbilanz der Hartz-Reformen könnte deshalb ungünstiger ausfallen, als die Beschäftigungsentwicklung vermuten lässt, da Arbeitsuchende nun eher zu Konzessionen bereit sind und auch schlechtere Stellenangebote akzeptieren." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Öffentlich geförderte Beschäftigung im Rahmen des Bundesprogramms Kommunal-Kombi: geschaffene Stellen und Teilnehmerstrukturen (2011)
Apel, Helmut; Egenolf, Dennis; Rosemann, Martin; Strotmann, Harald ; Friedrich, Werner; Biewen, Elena;Zitatform
Apel, Helmut, Elena Biewen, Dennis Egenolf, Werner Friedrich, Martin Rosemann & Harald Strotmann (2011): Öffentlich geförderte Beschäftigung im Rahmen des Bundesprogramms Kommunal-Kombi. Geschaffene Stellen und Teilnehmerstrukturen. (IAW Policy Reports 06), Tübingen, 14 S.
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"Das Programm Kommunal-Kombi startete am 1. Januar 2008 in insgesamt 79 Landkreisen und kreisfreien Städten, die eine durchschnittliche Arbeitslosenquote im Zeitraum von August 2006 bis April 2007 von mindestens 15 % aufwiesen. Seit April 2009 wurde die für die Förderung notwendige Mindestarbeitslosigkeit auf 10 % (Zeitraum: 8/2008 bis 1/2009) abgesenkt. Seitdem sind bundesweit 101 Regionen förderfähig. Der Schwerpunkt der Förderung liegt somit in Ostdeutschland. Die Evaluation des Kommunal-Kombi wird gemeinsam vom Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) und dem Institut für Sozialforschung und Gesellschaftspolitik (ISG) durchgeführt. Sie besteht aus den drei Bausteinen: Monitoring, Zielerreichungs- und Wirksamkeitskontrolle sowie Wirtschaftlichkeitskontrolle. Im Rahmen dieses Reports werden die wichtigsten Ergebnisse zusammenfassend dargestellt." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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