Germany's 2005 Welfare Reform Evaluating Key Characteristics with a Focus on Immigrants /

• Main Author: Walter, Thomas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Physica, 2013.
• Series: ZEW Economic Studies, 46
• Subjects: Econometrics.; Microeconomics.; Public finance.; Economic policy.; Social policy.; Labor economics.; Economics.; Labor Economics.; Public Economics.; Social Policy.; Economic Policy.

In January 2005, the German government enacted a substantial reform of the welfare system, the so-called Hartz IV reform. This book evaluates key characteristics of the reform from a microeconometric perspective. It investigates whether a centralized or decentralized organization of welfare administ...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Background for the Empirical Analyses: Institutional Details and Data
• Centralized versus Decentralized Welfare Administration
• The Employment Effects of an Intensified Use of Benefit Sanctions
• The Effectiveness of Temporary Extra Jobs and Short-Term Training Programs
• Fiscal Cost-Benefit Analyses for Temporary Extra Jobs and Short-Term Training Programs
• Conclusions
• Appendices.