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 …

the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of the overall impact of such measures. The reform of 1998 recognized …

of occasions since 1920. The most recent legal change in the form of the Works Constitution Reform Act marks a …

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 …

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 …

of reform: While health insurance is a fully comprehensive system, long-term care insurance only provides limited cover … recipients. Therefore, we discuss several reform options which have been proposed in order to overcome the financial and … years some drawbacks of the social long-term care insurance structure turned out to be in need of reform: While health …