Should Welfare Administration be Centralized or Decentralized? : Evidence from a Policy Experiment
- Boockmann, Bernhard Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW)
- Thomson, Stephan L. Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research (NIW)
- Walter, Thomas Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
- Göbel, Christian Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
- Huber, Martin University of St. Gallen
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2013
Published in:
- German economic review. - 2013, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 13-42
English
The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies are bound to central directives. At the same time, 69 districts were allowed to opt for a decentralized organization. We evaluate the relative success of both types in terms of integrating welfare recipients into employment. Com- pared to centralized organization, decentralized organization has a negative effect on employment chances of males. For women, no significant effect is found. These findings are robust to aspects of internal organization common to both types of agencies.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
- Department
- Département d'économie politique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Economics
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 323746
- DOI 10.1111/geer.12021
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/307242
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