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Germany's 2005 Welfare Reform

Evaluating Key Characteristics with a Focus on Immigrants

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Authors:
  1. Thomas Walter

    1. Economic Research (ZEW), Centre for European, Mannheim, Germany

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Part of the book series: ZEW Economic Studies (ZEW, volume 46)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Thomas Walter
    Pages 1-6

  3. Background for the Empirical Analyses: Institutional Details and Data

    • Thomas Walter
    Pages 7-31

  4. Centralized versus Decentralized Welfare Administration

    • Thomas Walter
    Pages 33-50

  5. The Employment Effects of an Intensified Use of Benefit Sanctions

    • Thomas Walter
    Pages 51-71

  6. The Effectiveness of Temporary Extra Jobs and Short-Term Training Programs

    • Thomas Walter
    Pages 73-115

  7. Fiscal Cost-Benefit Analyses for Temporary Extra Jobs and Short-Term Training Programs

    • Thomas Walter
    Pages 117-139

  8. Conclusions

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    Pages 141-147

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 149-264
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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 administration is more successful to integrate welfare recipients into employment. Moreover, it analyzes the employment effects of an intensified use of benefit sanctions and evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of the most frequently assigned Active Labor Market Programs. The analyses have a focus on immigrants, who are highly over-represented in the German welfare system.​

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  • Economic Research (ZEW), Centre for European, Mannheim, Germany

    Thomas Walter

About the author

Thomas Walter studied Economics at the University of Hannover and at the University of Bristol with special emphasis on economic policy, labour economics and econometrics. He works at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim as a researcher in the department of "Labour Markets, Human Resources and Social Policy". His research focuses on the labour market activation of welfare recipients.

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