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 …

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 …

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 …

for reform and its main principles. As results of programme evaluation studies post-reform have become available just now … positive effects. On balance, therefore, the reform seems to be moving the German labour market in the right direction …

, their recent reforms and where already possible effects of these reforms. Overall, Germany seems to be on the right track …

We examine the effects of a 2013 labour market reform in Slovenia which made permanent contracts less restrictive and … before and after the legislative change. We find that the reform achieved both its stated goals of reducing labour market …

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

This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre … marginal tax rates on earnings. The first reform distributes the additional tax revenue uniformly to everybody (traditional … welfare) while the second reform distributes tax proceeds uniformly to workers only (in-work benefit). We build a simple model …