Jacobi, Lena; Kluve, Jochen - 2021
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 …