"Institutional changes in the governance of employment services were the starting point of comprehensive labour market and social policy reforms - the so-called Hartz-reforms (2003-2005) - in Germany. Particularly with the Hartz IV reform in 2005 Germany's status- and occupation-oriented social...

O'NEILL P. M. (1996) In what sense a region's problem? The place of redistribution in Australia's internalization strategy, Reg. Studies 30, 401-411. There is widespread acceptence of a view that the state has been “hollowed out” as a direct result of rising international product and...

"We estimate the effects of the reform of German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage-related Unemployment Assistance with an income maintenance Programme and stronger means testing. We model the tax-benefit system and use the Socio-Economic Panel. We estimate a discrete labour supply...

"This article provides a result-oriented view on the current status of German active labor market policy evaluation. The literature shows that nearly all groups of instruments positively affect the labor market prospects of at least particular groups of participants. However, regarding the...

"This data report provides a description of the weakly-anonymized IZA/IAB Administrative Evaluation Dataset (AED 9310)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))<br><br><b>Additional Information</b><ul><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2015/DR_03-15_frequencies_labels_de.zip'>Auszählungen</a></li><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2015/DR_03-15_frequencies_labels_en.zip'>Frequencies and labels</a></li></ul>

"This report presents results from a qualitative study on the implementation of a startup subsidy for unemployed welfare recipients (the so-called 'Einstiegsgeld'). Our central findings are: - After the introduction of Einstiegsgeld in 2005 the inflow into the start-up subsidy reached an early...

Selten wurde eine sozialpolitische Reform in Deutschland so stark angefeindet wie die Zusammenlegung von Sozialhilfe und Arbeitslosenhilfe zum sogenannten Arbeitslosengeld II („Hartz IV“) zum 1. Januar 2005. Ihre politischen Konsequenzen – Abwahl der rot-grünen Koalition auf Bundesebene...

"This contribution gives an overview of the main results of our theoretical research on the stability and change of labour market institutions. We use so-called models of unionised oligopolies which are borrowed from the theory of industrial organization in order to analyse the effects of...