... the local industry and halt rising unemployment as the previously protected public companies began... relinquished some of the social benefits and cut working time to 28,8-hours per week. Withi...
This paper provides an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labor market and social policy in Germany. It not only shows the changes in the instruments of active and passive labor market policies but also analyzes the implications of this change for the political economy and the legal structure of a "Bismarckian" welfare state. Our study points at the changes in Germany's status- and occupation-oriented unemployment benefit regime that has been relinquished for a larger share of benefit recipients. Unemployment insurance benefit duration is shorter now and newly created basic income support for needy persons is not earnings-related anymore. Pressure on unemployed to take up jobs has increased considerably while more persons than before have access to labor market programs...
... the system of unemployment in-surance benefits and basic income support as well as the reper-toir...
... main characteristics are long-term unemployment and lack of prospects, political inactivity or ext... the other hand, access to unemployment benefits and the level of social assistance have been restr...
This article is an overview of how poverty experiences have developed during the last decade in Germany. It reviews how the related discourse has changed from the focus on monetary poverty to the issue of social integration and recapitulates the related changes in social policy design. The question to answer is how the underlying activation paradigm of the social policy reforms has influenced the poverty risk throughout society. Was it successful in bringing people back to work and diminishing poverty exposure? Who is at risk of becoming poor? Empirical findings on the extent and the distribution of the poverty risk are presented, and consequences of becoming poor in participation chances are shown. This is combined with a review of recent studies that deal with this subject with regard...
... main characteristics are long-term unemployment and lack of prospects, political inactivity or ext... the other hand, access to unemployment benefits and the level of social assistance have been restr...
... subject to an initial suspension of unemployment benefits for 12 weeks, such initial suspension to ...
... through social insurance in case of unemployment and a full-blown system of active labor market pol... the system of unemployment insurance benefits and basic income support as well as the repertoire...
The article examines the macroeconomic effects of the recent labour market reforms in Germany. The reforms increased the downward pressure on wages and led to rising income inequality. Many German economists welcomed this effect, because they consider lower wages and higher wage dispersion major prerequisites for stronger employment growth. The theoretical analysis shows that a strategy of wage restraint might make sense in a small open economy, where exports play a dominating role. However, in a large and less open economy the negative effects of wage restraint on domestic demand are likely to outweigh the positive effects of enhanced competitiveness as could be observed in Germany in recent years. A comparison of the most recent two upswings confirms that the labour intensity of growt...
..., surging public deficits and rising unemployment rates then were the dominant economic tendencies. ..., this is offset by too generous social benefits, which increase reservation wages. The negative ef...
Over the past twenty years or so the German pension system has undergone an almost endless series of reforms. Both the time spans for the respective reform processes themselves and the time spans between the reforms have diminished progressively, and they seem to have been more easily carried out each time. While the 1992 reform, which introduced the net adjustment formula and some other changes, took about ten years of preparation, the most recent reforms have been much less problematic. These new politics of German pension reform have been marked by a change in policy style, creative opportunism on the part of the government, a deliberate strategy of experimental law-making and a striking strategy of blame avoidance. Eventually, the German pension reforms succeeded in transforming the...
... regulations of the pension and the unemployment systems. In addition, the unions and big enterpris... to this, the duration of unemployment benefits was extended for older workers and for workers wit...
... regulations of the pension and the unemployment systems. In addition, the unions and big enterpris... to this, the duration of unemployment benefits was extended for older workers and for workers wit...
... work practices (work systems and fringe benefits) in two Western and two CEE subsidiaries of a Dutc... from the region's relatively high unemployment and availability of temporary agency workers. MPL ...
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