Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung eines Niedriglohnsektors …

Despite a sequence of labor market reforms in recent years, employment of older workers in Germany is still lower than … market policy and social benefits. It can be shown that the institutional framework currently in place in Germany is …

The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … both flexibility and job creation capacities through two intimately linked processes that redefined the line between … of flexible or 'atypical' jobs, whereas increasing flexibility of the standard employment relationship resulted from wage …

The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the … consolidation of the welfare state, this type of employment was reinforced in Germany in the 20th century and finally developed into … flexibility, rising working hours, falling income and increasing unemployment rates, rendering the standard employment contract …