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

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

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

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 …

The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns … most important type of training programs before and after the reform by using administrative data of the Federal Employment … training programs had a positive impact on employment prospects already before the reform. Results for the relative short …

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 …

Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland … dem zum Teil entgegen. Insgesamt befindet sich Deutschland in einer durchaus widersprüchlichen Übergangssituation. …

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …

recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on … the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of the overall impact of such measures. The reform of 1998 recognized …