TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walter,Thomas
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Germany's 2005 Welfare Reform: Evaluating Key Characteristics with a Focus on Immigrants 
T2  - ZEW Economic Studies,
SN  - 9783790828702
AV  - HD4801-8943 
U1  - 331 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Physica
KW  - Econometrics
KW  - Microeconomics
KW  - Public finance
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Social policy
KW  - Labor economics
KW  - Economics
KW  - Labor Economics
KW  - Public Economics
KW  - Social Policy
KW  - Economic Policy
N1  - 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
N2  - 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 administration is more successful to integrate welfare recipients into employment. Moreover, it analyzes the employment effects of an intensified use of benefit sanctions and evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of the most frequently assigned Active Labor Market Programs. The analyses focus on immigrants, who are highly over-represented in the German welfare system
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2870-2
ER  -