Arbeitsmarktpolitik im Spiegel konjunktureller Entwicklungen: Die politisch motivierte unterschiedliche Nutzung des Kurzarbeitergeldes 1973 – 2010

Bogedan, Claudia

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“…The relative robustness of success can also be illustrated by highlighting the fact that during the economic recession, unions and employer organizations were reincorporated into policymaking to build a broad political coalition. The social partners' rapid consensus to implement the short-time work allowance is regarded as a fundamental criterion for the success of this measure, since it was embedded in other flexibility strategies at the firm level (Bogedan 2012;Eichhorst and Weishaupt 2013). So, over time, both the inclusiveness (a process component) and breadth and depth of the societal legitimacy (a political component) of German labour market policies have improved.…”

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“…The same logic was applied in 2009. To improve employees' employability, the short-time work allowance was constructed in a way that costs for firms were lowest when short-term employment was combined with qualification measures (Bogedan 2012). At its peak, 1.14 million workers were protected from unemployment through the scheme, mostly in the manufacturing sector (Seeleib-Kaiser 2015: 192).…”

Section: A First Punch: the Hartz Reformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Germany’s Labour Market Policies

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2019

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Germany has become one of the most competitive economies in the world. Only a decade and a half ago it was widely derided as stagnant, and ridden by political paralysis in reforming its labour market policies. However, in 2002, the discovery of manipulated statistics in the German Employment Agency opened a window of opportunity to break the stalemate in corporatist policymaking. In response, the government convened a commission to design labour market policy reforms: the Hartz Committee, named for its chair, Peter Hartz. Including experts, politicians, and members from interest groups in the commission enabled the government to promote the ‘Hartz Reforms’ on the basis of expertise and compromise. Their focus was on creating incentives for seeking employment. Job search assistance and monitoring gained importance, whereas ineffective job creation and early retirement schemes were abolished or reduced. These activating reforms successfully tackled structural unemployment and increased the overall employment rate. Their success in strengthening economic resilience was demonstrated during the 2008 economic crisis, when in combination with other measures such as the extension of short-time work, and controlled unit labour costs, they led Germany’s labour market through the deep recession.

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Germany’s Labour Market Policies

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“…etwa Schmid et al 1987), abgeschnitten. Zwar wurde das Instrument der Kurzarbeit sogar ausgebaut (Bogedan 2012), allerdings ist unsicher, wie im Falle eines erneuten Beschäftigungsrückgangs die Kurzarbeit zu finanzieren wäre. Zum anderen ist es bislang nicht gelungen, die Funktionsweise der BA durch eine mittelfristige Haushaltsplanung zu stabilisieren (Hausner et al 2015) und damit eine Selbstbindung des Gesetzgebers an die Erfüllung arbeitsmarktpolitischer Aufgabenstellungen vorzunehmen.…”

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