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This paper analyzes the effectiveness of occupational training programs for the unemployed before and after the substantial amendments in German labor market legislation known as Hartz reforms. Based on the official evaluation of the reforms, we show that program impacts vary much across...
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approach regarding the introduction of additional minimum wages in Germany and more generous in-work benefits combined with an …
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The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of active ageing. Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...
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Radical labour market reforms were implemented in Germany between 2002 and 2005, reforms that overturned the received … idea that Germany was suffering from "reform paralysis". However, the part of these reforms that specifically concerned … controversial and changed the party-political landscape in Germany. Shortly after the reforms were introduced, a trend reversal took …
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