In the late nineties, Germany was often seen as a laggard with respect to labor market and welfare state reforms with institutional inertia being reflected in notoriously sluggish employment growth and rising unemployment. Recent years, however, saw a complex sequence of reforms with regard to...

The German labor market reforms seem to be on the right track. However, they need to be adjusted especially on the organizational side to make them more effective. The labor market instruments can be concentrated on temporary company wage subsidies, training measures and financial incentives for...

Im Rahmen der Dienstleistungsfreiheit in der EU ist die Entsendung von Arbeitskräften aus den neuen EU-Staaten geregelt. Diskutiert wird derzeit jedoch, ob es aus ökonomischen oder politischen Gründen eine Schutzbestimmung zugunsten inländischer Betriebe und deren Beschäftigten gegen...