This paper reviews the U.S. welfare reform efforts over the 1990s and the effects of these reforms to date. Seven lessons of potential interest to European observers are discussed, with particular attention to the conclusions of more recent research. Such research indicates, for example, that...

Am 4. und 5. Dezember 2003 veranstalteten das Hamburgische Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv (HWWA) und der Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration gemeinsam in Hamburg eine interdisziplinäre Konferenz zur europäischen Wirtschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik. (Informationen aus dem Vorwort)

This paper reviews the U.S. welfare reform efforts over the 1990s and the effects of these reforms to date. Seven "lessons" of potential interest to European observers are discussed, with particular attention to the conclusions of more recent research. Such research indicates, for example, that...

The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...