Chronologie seit 1998 in sechs Politikfeldern * Arbeitsförderung/SGB II & Arbeitsrecht * Grundsicherung/Sozialhilfe & Wohngeld * Rentenversicherung & Alterssicherung * Krankenversicherung & Gesundheitswesen * Pflegeversicherung & Pflege * Kindergeld, Elterngeld/-zeit, Kinderbetreuung Mit den...

Der vorliegende Band präsentiert in überarbeiteter Form die Referate, die auf der Jahrestagung 1996 des Ausschusses für Sozialpolitik in Ingolstadt vorgetragen wurden. -- In einem ersten grundlegenden Beitrag beschäftigt sich Gert Wagner mit 'Zentralen Aufgaben beim Um- und Ausbau des...

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der qualitativen Veränderung des deutschen Wohlfahrts-staatsmodells durch die Hartz-Reformen Anfang der 2000er Jahre. Anhand des von Sabatier entwickelten Advocacy Coalition Frameworks und seinen Arbeiten zum politischen Wandel soll festgestellt...

It is useful to distinguish between exogenous and endogenous factors behind contemporary and expected future problems for the welfare state. This paper tries to identify major problems of both types and to indicate alternative reform possibilities to deal with them. At the same time as several...

The expansion of welfare-state arrangements is seen as the result of dynamic interaction between market behaviour and political behaviour, often with considerable time lags, sometimes generating either virtuous or vicious circles. Such interaction may also involve induced (endogenous) changes in...

Germany's social security system is surveyed, its benefits and contributions are discussed. The expansion of this system in the last decades is described, its impact on employment and growth is studied and proposals for the reform of the system are discussed.

The paper challenges the widespread view that Bismarckian countries with a strong role of social insurance and labor market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to reforms. This has been true about a decade ago. But both the institutional set-up and the...

The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...