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Social policy strategies to combat income poverty of children and families in Europe

The Puzzle of Egalitarianism: About the Relationship Between Employment, Wage, Inequality, Social Expenditures and Poverty

Best Practices, or, How to Link Policy Inputs and Well-Being Outcomes: the Role of Policy Input Indicators

The Dynamics of Social Assistence Benefit Receipt in Britain

We analyze the dynamics of social assistance benefit (SA) receipt among working-age adults in Britain between 1991 and 2005. The decline in the annual SA receipt rate was driven by a decline in the SA entry rate, rather than by the SA exit rate (which actually declined too). We examine the determinants of these trends using a multivariate dynamic random effects probit model of SA entry and exit probabilities ...

What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?

Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good approximation to the wage structure and can explain nearly all of the dramatic rise in West German wage ...

Opening the Black Box of Primary Effects: Relative Risk Aversion and Maternal Time Investments in Preschool Children

Judging from the abundant and expanding literature on educational inequalities, the apparent consensus is that divergent educational outcomes of individuals can be explained by two main mechanisms: classspecific differences in children’s skills (primary effects) and educational choices, net of skills (secondary effects). Contrary to the widespread agreement that primary effects stem from differences ...

Measuring cultural capital: Sense of entitlement, concerted cultivation, leisure activities, gatekeeper bias and skills

Feeling German: The impact of education on immigrants’ national identification

In this study, we investigate the role of education in immigrants’ identification with the host society. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and latent growth curve mediation models, we test the immigration paradox hypothesis (de Vroome et al. 2011), which claims that highly educated immigrants identify less with the host society, due to their higher sensitivity to discriminatory experiences. ...

The Fall in German Unemployment: A Flow Analysis

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers and appear as non-participants. Yet, labour force participation increased because many unregistered-unemployed workers ...