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Expect the unexpected: social asistance dynamics of single or unemployed parents in Germany and the U.S.

Erwarte das Unerwartete: Sozialhilfedynamik von alleinstehenden und arbeitslosen Eltern in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und den USA
[working paper]

Bohrhardt, Ralf
Leibfried, Stephan

Corporate Editor
Universität Bremen, SFB 186 Statuspassagen und Risikolagen im Lebensverlauf

Abstract

"This working paper describes how different poverty policies influence the risk, the duration, and the dynamics of Social Assistance receipt by families. They compare the performance of means-tested income support policies addressed to families with children in Germany and the U.S.A. They rely on tw... view more

"This working paper describes how different poverty policies influence the risk, the duration, and the dynamics of Social Assistance receipt by families. They compare the performance of means-tested income support policies addressed to families with children in Germany and the U.S.A. They rely on two sets of longitudinal administrative data for each country. The somewhat counter-intuitive results may be summarized as follows: In the U.S. lone or unemployed parents who did not leave Social Assistance in their first year of receipt stay on the rolls longer and more continuously than they do in Germany's more generous welfare state. Some selection effects are analyzed to account for these differences. Time related multi-variate analysis shows significant regional disparities in both countries. It also points to the importance of social stratification and labor market characteristics for the found differences."... view less


Die international vergleichende Studie arbeitet heraus, daß und wie unterschiedliche Sozial- und Armutspolitiken das Risiko, die Dauer und die Dynamik des Empfangs von Sozialhilfe beeinflussen. Verglichen werden dazu die Transferleistungen an Familien in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Bremen) und d... view more

Die international vergleichende Studie arbeitet heraus, daß und wie unterschiedliche Sozial- und Armutspolitiken das Risiko, die Dauer und die Dynamik des Empfangs von Sozialhilfe beeinflussen. Verglichen werden dazu die Transferleistungen an Familien in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Bremen) und den USA im Zeitraum von 1989 bis 1996 mittels einer Längsschnittanalyse der Daten von zwei Gemeinden. Das kontraintuitive Resultat der Untersuchung läßt sich wie folgt zusammenfassen: In den USA bleiben alleinstehende und/oder arbeitslose Eltern wesentlicher länger von staatlichen Hilfeleistungen als in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland abhängig, wenn es ihnen nicht gelingt, im Laufe eines Jahres diesen Status zu verändern. Insgesamt betont die Studie die Bedeutung der sozialen Schichtung und der Arbeitsmarktmerkmale für Sozialhilfeempfänger. (pre)... view less

Keywords
change of status; class-specific factors; Federal Republic of Germany; Bremen; social research; social assistance; family policy; unemployment; interdisciplinary research; United States of America; poverty; social status; labor market; occupational research; social policy; life career; international comparison; occupational sociology; transfer payments

Classification
Social Security
Family Policy, Youth Policy, Policy on the Elderly
Social Problems

Method
empirical

Free Keywords
Sonderforschungsbereich 186; DFG-Projekt; Statuspassagen; Risikolagen; Lebensverlauf; Lebenslaufforschung; Biografieforschung; Erwerbsbiografie; Arbeits(markt-)soziologie; Sozialpolitikforschung; Längsschnitt

Document language
English

Publication Year
1999

City
Bremen

Page/Pages
38 p.

Series
Arbeitspapier / Sfb 186, 56

Status
Published Version; reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works


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