Arbeitspapier

State dependence in welfare receipt: Transitions before and after a reform

We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of the German welfare system. We find that welfare transitions changed after the reform: transitions from welfare to employment became more likely and persistence in welfare and inactivity declined. We observe a large relative increase in transitions from employment to welfare. Immigrants' responsiveness to the labor market situation increased after the reform.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 758

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Thema
social assistance
state dependence
unemployment benefit II
immigration
dynamic multinomial logit

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Riphahn, Regina T.
Wunder, Christoph
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2015

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Riphahn, Regina T.
  • Wunder, Christoph
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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