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Redesigning The Welfare State
Germany’s Current Agenda for an Activating Social Assistance

Hans-Werner Sinn, President, Ifo Institute of Economic Research, Professor of Economics and Public Finance and Director, Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich, Germany, Christian Holzner, Wolfgang Meister, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Wolfgang Ochel, Ifo Institute for Economic Research and CESifo Research Network, Germany and Martin Werding, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
2006 224 pp Hardback 978 1 84720 077 8 £55.00 on-line discount £49.50

Redesigning the Welfare State argues that the current high level of unemployment in Germany not only creates a major challenge for the German welfare state, but is to a good extent caused by the way the country's welfare system is designed.

Contents: Series Foreword Introduction: Securing a Minimum Level of Income in the Welfare State 1. Welfare Benefits and Unemployment: The Diagnosis 2. The Debate on Reforms and How It Shaped the Current Political Agenda 3. Welfare to Work: Ifo’s Proposal 4. Actual Reforms Enacted So Far 5. The 2005 Reform and Ifo’s Proposal 6. Conclusion References Index



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