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Labour Market Institutions in Germany : Current Status and Ongoing Reforms

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As the German employment system can be generally characterised as highly protective and favourable to employees in respect to their labour rights, democratic participation in the economic sphere and the level of social protection, this article addresses the question of the consequences of these two diametrical strategies for the underlying principles of the German employment system. The main argument will show that intentional government reforms are a factor that only partly accounts for the ongoing basic changes. Other factors that influence the system are ongoing changes in social practices and initiatives or rulings by supra-national organisations.

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  • Bothfeld, Silke, 2007. "Labour Market Institutions in Germany : Current Status and Ongoing Reforms," WSI Working Papers 152, The Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), Hans Böckler Foundation.
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    1. Moehring, Katja & Weiland, Andreas & Reifenscheid, Maximiliane & Naumann, Elias & Wenz, Alexander & Rettig, Tobias & Krieger, Ulrich & Fikel, Marina & Cornesse, Carina & Blom, Annelies G., 2021. "Inequality in employment trajectories and their socio-economic consequences during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany," SocArXiv m95df, Center for Open Science.
    2. Tangian, Andranik, 2008. "On the European readiness for flexicurity: Empirical evidence with OECD/HBS methodologies and reform proposals," WSI Working Papers 160, The Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), Hans Böckler Foundation.
    3. Nora Albu & Heike Joebges & Rudolf Zwiener, 2018. "Increasing competitiveness at any price?," IMK Working Paper 192-2018, IMK at the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Macroeconomic Policy Institute.
    4. Seifert, Hartmut & Tangian, Andranik, 2007. "Flexicurity: Reconciling Social Security with Flexibility - Empirical Findings for Europe," WSI Working Papers 154, The Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), Hans Böckler Foundation.
    5. Tangian, Andranik, 2012. "Statistical test for the mathematical theory of democracy," WSI Working Papers 179, The Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), Hans Böckler Foundation.

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