Eichhorst, Werner; Kaiser, Lutz C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In the late nineties, Germany was often seen as a laggard with respect to labor market and welfare state reforms with … institutional inertia being reflected in notoriously sluggish employment growth and rising unemployment. Recent years, however, saw … Germany have in fact contributed to overcoming structural weaknesses of a Continental European ‘welfare state without work …