last years. The paper summarizes major reform dynamics in Bismarckian welfare states which had adopted a strategy of labor …

This paper assesses the existence and the extent of austerity‐oriented policies in Germany in the aftermath of the 2008 … readjustment', we do not see austerity policies in Germany, rather a continuation of the path that was adopted earlier. This can be …

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …

policy advice with particular respect to the field of labor market and social policy reform and to corporatist arrangements … structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …

principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …

job opportunities and job stability. This paper addresses this issue using administrative longitudinal data for Germany …-off is not confirmed by the results. In Germany, men have experienced an increase in employment stability over time, mated …

German economy since 1995: 1) Germany offshores more intensively than other advanced countries; 2) The increase in … competitiveness and in the exports/production ratio occurs before the implementation of the labour market reform, and this comes with … both higher inequality and higher unemployment; 3) The implementation of the reform reduces unemployment, but also …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively … egalitarian labor market, the number of jobs, but also their diversity has increased. -- Germany ; labor market reforms ; atypical …