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Arbeitslosigkeit, Zuwanderung und Sozialhilfe: Eine Analyse der Determinanten und der Finanzierung der Sozialhilfeausgaben

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  • Helmut Seitz
  • Claudia Kurz

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In West Germany, social assistance expenditures increased by about 240% in the period 1980 to 1996 whereas total public expenditures increased by only about 80%. The paper examines the determinants as well as the financing of social assistance expenditures using a cross section of the West German Länder. In accordance to studies using individual data we identify unemployment as the main source of the increase of these expenditures. The massive immigration of asylum-seekers to Germany is found to be another important determinant of the increase of social assistance payments. In a further section we present a simple intertemporal model of government expenditure decisions and evaluate the relation between transfer payments and the supply of public goods. The empirical evidence shows that in the short run an increase in social assistance expenditures is partly deficit financed whereas in the long run particularily capital outlays, notably infrastructure expenditures, are cut to finance transfers.

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  • Helmut Seitz & Claudia Kurz, 1999. "Arbeitslosigkeit, Zuwanderung und Sozialhilfe: Eine Analyse der Determinanten und der Finanzierung der Sozialhilfeausgaben," FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 56(3/4), pages 518-518, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:finarc:urn:sici:0015-2218(200007)56:3/4_518:azusea_2.0.tx_2-4
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    1. Rüdiger Parsche & Christian Baretti & Erich Langmantel, 2002. "Reform of the Approach to Social-Welfare Burden Sharing in the Municipal Fiscal Equalisation Scheme of Rhineland-Palatinate III," ifo Forschungsberichte, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, number 11, September.
    2. Britta Baum & Helmut Seitz, 2003. "Demographischer Wandel und Bildungsausgaben: empirische Evidenz für die westdeutschen Länder," Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 72(2), pages 205-219.
    3. Reissert, Bernd, 2009. "Regionale Umverteilungs- und Stabilisierungseffekte der Arbeitslosenunterstützung: Veränderungen durch "Hartz IV"?," Forschungs- und Sitzungsberichte der ARL: Aufsätze, in: Mäding, Heinrich (ed.), Öffentliche Finanzströme und räumliche Entwicklung, volume 127, pages 75-104, ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft.
    4. Wilde Joachim, 2003. "Was reizt Sozial hi Ifeempfänger zum Ausstieg?. Eine empirische Untersuchung mit dem Niedrigeinkommens-Panel / Why do Recipients of German Social Assistance Opt Out?. An Empirical Investigation of Inc," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 223(6), pages 719-742, December.

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