After the Hartz reforms of 2003-2005, unemployment in Germany has gone down significantly. Using a structural … less than 0.1 percentage point of the decline in the observed unemployment rate. A substantial degree of influence, to the … contrary, is attributed to the preceding Hartz III reform. Thus, the reduction of unemployment compensation could have been …

Germany. While the reforms consisted of four parts, it was especially the reform of the unemployment benefit system - the … year earlier, was much more successful in reducing unemployment. The reorganisation or the BA accounts for around 20% of … the reduction of unemployment between 2005 and 2008. By contrast, the Hartz IV reform can account for only 5% of this …