TY  - GEN
A1  - Deimer, Klaus
T1  - Niedriglohn und soziale Sicherung
T1  - Low wages and social insurance
N2  - In the need to reform the German labour market, the so-called ‚Hartz IV’- Act cut down subsidies for unemployed people in order to increase the pressure for searching for a new job. By law, low-paid jobs shall be introduced. However, even if this creates employment, there will be a future problem: pensions for these people will dramatically drop below the poverty line. The author argues that, in order to avoid such ‘poverty-traps’, an alternative social support system should be considered: a ‘tax transfer system’ with lowered income tax, yet complete reduction of legal exceptions on the one hand, and transfer systems combined with work incentives on the other hand.
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Arbeitsmarkt
KW  - Sozialversicherung
KW  - Germany
KW  - labour market
KW  - social insurance
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-47850
ER  -