abstract: 'The paper analyses changes in the generosity of public transfers to the

  unemployed and their effectiveness for the alleviation of poverty risks

  in Germany and Great Britain between the 1990s and the 2000s. In the

  light of changing poverty risks among the unemployed, the contribution

  of policy changes is assessed using individual-level data on household

  incomes. The results indicate that the introduction and expansion of the

  tax credit programmes in Britain led to an increase of public transfers

  especially for those with low household market incomes and thereby also

  improved the effectiveness of transfers in combating poverty. In

  Germany, the generosity of transfers to the unemployed hardly changed

  over time, whereas the effectiveness of transfers to prevent households

  from falling into poverty declined. This can be explained by changes in

  the composition of the unemployed by recent labour force participation

  and household market incomes. As former labour market insiders are

  consistently better protected from poverty than former outsiders, the

  results confirm the stratified nature of unemployment protection in

  Germany, albeit no significant trend towards increasing dualisation in

  public benefits is found. Thus, the results do not support notions of a

  fundamental shift of the system of unemployment protection with respect

  to the generosity of transfers in Germany but emphasise the importance

  of changes in the German labour market.'
affiliation: 'Brulle, J (Corresponding Author), Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Inst Sociol,
  Theodor W Adorno Pl 6, D-60323 Frankfurt, Germany.

  Bruelle, Jan, Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.'
article-number: 0001699320974740
author: Bruelle, Jan
author-email: bruelle@soz.uni-frankfurt.de
author_list:
- family: Bruelle
  given: Jan
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/0001699320974740
earlyaccessdate: DEC 2020
eissn: 1502-3869
files: []
issn: 0001-6993
journal: ACTA SOCIOLOGICA
keywords: 'Welfare state; dualisation; targeting; social policy; unemployment;

  poverty'
keywords-plus: WELFARE-STATE; INCOME INEQUALITY; EMPLOYMENT; PARADOX; WORK
language: English
month: NOV
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '41'
orcid-numbers: Brülle, Jan/0000-0002-7102-5649
pages: 420-436
papis_id: 8db83556096ed051435ec2c72ac6255d
ref: Bruelle2021dualisationtargeting
researcherid-numbers: Brülle, Jan/A-7055-2014
times-cited: '2'
title: Dualisation versus targeting? Public transfers and poverty risks among the
  unemployed in Germany and Great Britain
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000600192300001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '1'
volume: '64'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2021'