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dc.contributor.authorHemerijck, Antonen
dc.contributor.authorEichhorst, Werneren
dc.date.accessioned2009-04-29-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:53:13Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:53:13Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20090330180en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35552-
dc.description.abstractThe paper challenges the widespread view that Bismarckian countries with a strong role of social insurance and labor market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to reforms. This has been true about a decade ago. But both the institutional set-up and the performance of Bismarckian countries have changed fundamentally over the last years. The paper summarizes major reform dynamics in Bismarckian welfare states which had adopted a strategy of labor shedding in the 1970s and 1980s to combat open unemployment. As this was associated with an increasing burden of non-wage labor costs, this triggered a sequence of more employment-oriented and more fundamental reforms that eventually helped overcome a low employment situation. The paper pursues the trajectory of reforms, shows the structural change in labor market performance and points out the achievements of past reforms, but also emphasizes the need for further action in terms of education and training, activation and employment opportunities for all working age people in these countries so that flexibility and security can be reconciled.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x4085en
dc.subject.jelJ26en
dc.subject.jelJ68en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordBismarckian welfare statesen
dc.subject.keywordsocial insuranceen
dc.subject.keywordsocial policyen
dc.subject.keywordemploymenten
dc.subject.keywordlabor market policiesen
dc.subject.stwSozialstaaten
dc.subject.stwSozialreformen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsmarktpolitiken
dc.subject.stwReformen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsmarktflexibilisierungen
dc.subject.stwEuropaen
dc.titleWhatever happened to the Bismarckian welfare state? From labor shedding to employment-friendly reforms-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn598776915en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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