The German federal government is planning a radical reform of the basic income scheme for the long-term unemployed …

Germany. While the reforms consisted of four parts, it was especially the reform of the unemployment benefit system - the … the Hartz III reform of the German public employment agency (the "Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA)"), that took place one … the reduction of unemployment between 2005 and 2008. By contrast, the Hartz IV reform can account for only 5% of this …

In this article, we discuss reform elements of "Hartz IV". This includes, on the one hand, merging unemployment … disincentives which prevent the recipients from earning higher incomes. Employment incentives can be improved if the effective … criticism of such a reform of Hartz IV is that it would increase the number of transfer recipients. However, this is not an …

The Hartz IV labour market reform in 2005 triggered a substantial reduction in unemployment in Germany. At the same … reform by the new government ("Bürgergeld") will adjust the German welfare system moderately towards more social insurance …. This article argues that the associated negative employment effects can be minimised by requiring appropriate participation …

of (monetary) incentives to work, especially to take up employment with higher weekly working hours. In this paper, we … summarise potential effects of such a reform on labour supply, the income distribution and the government budget in the context …

The authors discuss the reform of basic security in the direction of a "citizen's income" in the coalition agreement of … of the welfare state, including those from the "Schleswig-Holstein Future Laboratory". They see the reform of the citizen …

The new German federal government wants to replace the unemployment benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II) with a so …-term unemployed will be finally readjusted towards supportive policy measures such as training. The reform of the in-work benefit … element should aim at supporting sustainable employment subject to social security contributions. However, to live up to its …

Jahresbeginn 2023 reformiert werden. Die Reform steht dabei nicht allein für eine begriffliche Abkehr von "Hartz IV", sondern … vorab ihre Einschätzung der Reform erhoben. …The latest reform of Germanys means-tested basic income support does not only stand for a conceptual change, but claims …