Enhancing or Limiting Labor Supply? An Analysis of German Employers’ Perceptions of Work Incentives in Social Policy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Paster
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Work Incentives

scholarly journals Anti-Poverty Policy for Families in the Next Century: From Welfare to Work—and Worries

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T Ellwood
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Work Incentives ◽  
Welfare To Work ◽  
Working Families

This paper reveals that recent changes in social policy have included both sharp cutbacks in welfare for non-working families and dramatic increases in supports for low income working families. It explores the reasons for these changes, and documents how they have radically changed work incentives for some persons, notable single mothers. The result has been a large increase in work by low wage single parents. The paper concludes by examining several potential dangers of this new direction and explores the challenges that remain for the next century.

The Design of In-work Benefits

2018 ◽  
pp. 244-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Vandelannoote ◽  
Gerlinde Verbist
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Work Incentives ◽  
Intensive Margin ◽  
Stepwise Manner ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Design Changes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

This chapter focuses on the impact of the design of in-work benefits on work incentives and poverty reduction. Focusing on one country, Belgium, microsimulation techniques are used to study stylized design changes in a stepwise manner, examining in each step which characteristics of an in-work benefit “make it work.” As this study makes clear, both the size and design matter. Sufficient budget is needed to reach significant changes in outcomes, while the exact specifications of the way in which the benefit is designed are crucial. The results show some trade-offs between employment and poverty objectives, as well as between labor-supply outcomes at the extensive and the intensive margin. For the Belgian context, an individual-based system that uses hourly wages as a threshold seems to reconcile both work incentives and poverty outcomes in a satisfactory way.

scholarly journals Questioning the feasibility and justice of basic income accounting for migration

2021 ◽  
pp. 1470594X2110323
Author(s):  
Verena Löffler
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Tax Base ◽  
Economic Entity ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Income Accounting ◽  
Normative Perspective

When studying the feasibility and justice of basic income, researchers usually assume that policymakers would be introducing the unconditional benefit to a closed economic entity. When contemplating the introduction of a universal policy, few researchers take into consideration the fact that citizens and foreigners migrate, and that this movement alters the size and skill structure of the population. This article addresses this oversight by analyzing how basic income schemes based on residence or citizenship may affect tax base, wages, and employment while incorporating migration incentives. The discussion is based upon neoclassical labor supply and migration theory and informed by the conjectured economic effects from a normative perspective. This research suggests that a basic income would create migration incentives that reduce the tax base, leading us to question this policy’s feasibility. Moreover, the flow-on effects of migration call into question the justice of both residence-based and citizenship-based basic income schemes. Therefore, this article sheds light on how basic income’s feasibility and justice relate to each other and identifies the benefits and further opportunities for interdisciplinary social policy research.

scholarly journals Social policy and labor supply: The impact of activating labor market institutions on reservation wages

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Fuchs ◽  
Sebastian Prechsl ◽  
Tobias Wolbring
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Labor Market Institutions ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Gainful Employment ◽  
Reservation Wages ◽  
The Impact

Activation as a social policy that facilitates transitions into the labor market continues to influence modern welfare states until today. Taking the case of Germany, we study the relationship between embeddedness of benefit recipients in activating labor market institutions and individual labor supply. Using panel data, we estimate the effects of transitions between key institutional states with different degrees of activation on reservation wages. We show that reservation wages are sensitive to activation: The transition from gainful employment into unemployment benefit receipt leads to an average 3.2 percent decrease in reservation wages. The transition from gainful employment into welfare benefit receipt - an institutional state with far more rigorous activation - leads to a stronger decrease of 4.9 percent. Mediation analyses show that the income associated with different institutional states is the predominant mechanism that drives the effect on reservation wages. However, subjective social status also partly mediates the effect.

Practice of compensation in the foreign design and survey organizations

10.12737/545 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Рогожникова ◽  
Yuliya Rogozhnikova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
International Market ◽  
Work Incentives ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Design Engineers ◽  
Domestic Companies

Article contains the analysis related to applied elements of system of payment and work incentives in the design and survey organizations of France, Germany, Canada, and also in the joint German-Russian venture. The considered foreign organizations take leading positions in branch of transport design in the international market and can compete with Russian companies in the market of design and exploration work and on a labor market of technical specialists (design engineers, architects and others) and managers (CPEs — chief project engineers, CPAs —chief project architects). The analysis of foreign experience in area of compensation and social policy allows to draw conclusions and to develop recommendations for the domestic companies about redistribution of financial means in structure of expenses for the personnel and transfer of organizations’ expenses related to social package to employees’ salary.

scholarly journals Work Incentives and Labor Supply Effects of the ‘Mini-Jobs Reform’ in Germany

Empirica ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Steiner ◽  
Katharina Wrohlich
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Work Incentives

Joint Approaches to Social Policy

1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Challis ◽  
Susan Fuller ◽  
Melanie Henwood ◽  
Rudolf Klein ◽  
William Plowden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy
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