Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I COMPLEXITY, ORGANIC STRUCTURE AND INCREMENTAL INNOVATION -- 1 Industry in a New Age -- 2 Program Change and Organizational Properties: A Comparative Analysis -- 3 Size,...

In January 2005, the German government enacted a substantial reform of the welfare system, the so-called Hartz IV reform. This book evaluates key characteristics of the reform from a microeconometric perspective. It investigates whether a centralized or decentralized organization of welfare...

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