Of carrots and sticks: the effect of workfare announcements on the job search behaviour and reservation wage of welfare recipients

Abstract The German workfare scheme ‘One-Euro-Jobs’, which provides additional jobs of public interest for welfare recipients, has a number of different goals.On the one hand, One-Euro-Jobs are intended to increase the participants’ employment prospects in the medium term.On the other hand, they can be used to test welfare recipients’ willi

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Hearing Loss and Cognition: What We Know and Where We Need to Go

Although a causal association remains to be determined, epidemiologic evidence suggests an association between hearing loss and increased risk of click here dementia.If we determine the association is causal, opportunity for targeted intervention for hearing loss may play a fundamental role in dementia prevention.In this discussion, we summarize cu

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