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Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms
Hemerijck, Anton - 2010
last years. The paper summarizes major reform dynamics in Bismarckian welfare states which had adopted a strategy of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757643
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Financing Social Security : Simulating Different Welfare State Systems for Germany
Dieckhoener, Caroline - 2009
In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160308
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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms : The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - 2021
policy advice with particular respect to the field of labor market and social policy reform and to corporatist arrangements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318135
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Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans
Atal, Juan Pablo - 2017
predicts that the portability reform will increase internal plan switching. However, under plausible assumptions, it will not … increase external insurer switching. Moreover, the portability reform will enable unhealthier enrollees to reoptimize their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952588
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What Hides Behind the German Labor Market Miracle? Unemployment Insurance Reforms and Labor Market Dynamics
Hartung, Benjamin - 2018
76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … market search model. Absent the reform, unemployment rates would be 50% higher today …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906473
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Reforming German Labor Market Institutions : A Dual Path to Flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner - 2009
moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764076
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Labor in the Boardroom
Jäger, Simon - 2019
study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858488
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A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany
Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2021
Over the last year the German government has introduced a comprehensive set of labor market policy reforms, the so-called Hartz reforms, which aim at a significant reduction of unemployment. To this end, (a) many of the existing instruments of active labor market policy are modified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319374
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy : The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021
the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of the overall impact of such measures. The reform of 1998 recognized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321250
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Structural Reform in Germany
Krebs, Tom - 2016
This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the macroeconomic, distributional, and fiscal effects of three reform … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996554