This paper provides an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labour market and social policy in Germany … study points at the changes in Germany's status- and occupation-oriented unemployment benefit regime that has been …

Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung eines Niedriglohnsektors …

Despite a sequence of labor market reforms in recent years, employment of older workers in Germany is still lower than … market policy and social benefits. It can be shown that the institutional framework currently in place in Germany is …

The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the … consolidation of the welfare state, this type of employment was reinforced in Germany in the 20th century and finally developed into …

Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland … dem zum Teil entgegen. Insgesamt befindet sich Deutschland in einer durchaus widersprüchlichen Übergangssituation. …

Using a newly constructed macroeconometric model for Germany and the rest of the Euro area, we investigate the … macroeconomic effects of structural labor market reforms in Germany. We find that neither the fact that Germany can no longer pursue … Germany by implementing labor market reforms themselves constitute impediments to successful reforms. Reforms would relative …