Should Welfare Administration be Centralized or Decentralized? Evidence from a Policy Experiment
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- Bernhard Boockmann & Stephan L. Thomsen & Thomas Walter & Christian Göbel & Martin Huber, 2015. "Should Welfare Administration be Centralized or Decentralized? Evidence from a Policy Experiment," German Economic Review, Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 16(1), pages 13-42, February.
- Bernhard Boockmann & Stephan L. Thomsen & Thomas Walter & Christian Göbel & Martin Huber, 2010. "Should Welfare Administration be Centralized or Decentralized? Evidence from a Policy Experiment," IAW Discussion Papers 69, Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW).
- Boockmann, Bernhard & Thomsen, Stephan L. & Walter, Thomas & Göbel, Christian & Huber, Martin, 2010. "Should welfare administration be centralized or decentralized? Evidence from a policy experiment," ZEW Discussion Papers 10-106, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
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Keywords
Welfare System; organization; decentralization; labor market integration;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- C31 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models
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