Hemerijck, Anton; Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The paper challenges the widespread view that Bismarckian countries with a strong role of social insurance and labor … ago. But both the institutional set-up and the performance of BIsmarckian countries have changed fundamentally over the … shedding in the 1970s and 1980s to combat open unemployment. As this was associated with an increasing burden of non-wage labor …