Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 94 (2014) 2, pp. 112-117
After the Hartz reforms of 2003-2005, unemployment in Germany has gone down significantly. Using a structural … less than 0.1 percentage point of the decline in the observed unemployment rate. A substantial degree of influence, to the … contrary, is attributed to the preceding Hartz III reform. Thus, the reduction of unemployment compensation could have been …
