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Reassessing the wage penalty for temps in Germany
Jahn, Elke J. - 2008
As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working conditions of temps, specifically their remuneration, has intensified recently. Using administrative data, the paper shows that the wage gap for German temp workers is rather large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268722
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Will it Last? An Assessment of the 2001 German Pension Reform
Bonin, Holger - 2001
In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension … accounts. The paper critically reviews the reform decisions and evaluates their long-term viability. It is shown that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262550
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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts: a microsimulation analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269491
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A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany
Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2004
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/10010261856
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Do Financial Incentives Promote the Employment of the Disabled?
Verick, Sher - 2004
Government announced that through this reform it had successfully reduced the number of unemployed by 25% representing around 45 …,000 individuals. However, an evaluation of the impact of this policy reform on labour market outcomes for the severely disabled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262008
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
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/10010262390
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The Long Awaited Reform of the German Works Constitution Act
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002
of occasions since 1920. The most recent legal change in the form of the Works Constitution Reform Act marks a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262826
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Die Wirkung der Hartz-Reform im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung
Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267757
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Basic Income Reform in Germany: Better Gradualism than Cold Turkey
Spermann, Alexander - 2006
This paper advocates the cautious and constitutional evolution of existing basic income schemes (unemployment benefit II) and Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT = Einstiegsgeld) into a means-tested combi-wage model for the future long-term unemployed (gradualism strategy). The paper argues that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267777
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Benefit-entitlement effects and the duration of unemployment: an ex-ante evaluation of recent labour market reforms in Germany
Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre-reform … the duration of unemployment. Our simulation results show that the recent labour market reform is unlikely to have a major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268114