Kluve, Jochen; Jacobi, Lena - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2006
labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005. This paper describes the economic and institutional context of the German … labour market before and after these so-called Hartz reforms.Focussing on active policy measures,we delineate the rationale … positive effects.On balance, therefore, the reform seems to be moving the German labour market in the right direction. …