Can Gerhard Schröder Do It? Prospects for Fundamental Reform of the German Economy and a Return to High Employment

Irwin Collier

No 1059, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The year 2003 has witnessed several major reform policy initiatives in Germany intended to contribute to a solution to Germany's high unemployment problem and to improve the longrun sustainability of its social welfare policies. These economic reforms are discussed within a larger macroeconomic context.

Keywords: social policy reform; labor market reform; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E65 J68 O52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2004-03
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Published - published in: David P. Conradt et al., A Precarious Victory: Schroeder and the German Elections of 2002, New York, Berghahn Books, 2005

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