Paradigmenwechsel durch inkrementellen Wandel: Was bleibt von der Arbeitslosenversicherung?

Bothfeld, Silke; Rosenthal, Peer

doi:10.5771/0342-300x-2014-3-199

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“…This implicit threat was increased rather than mitigated by the operational changes introduced by the Hartz-reforms so that, compared to other OECD countries, Germany has the most stringent regulations concerning occupational mobility, availability and job search requirements today (Venn, 2012): In 1998, the safeguard regarding the level of vocational qualification was abandoned but in 2005 a declining replacement rate, together with stricter rules regarding mobility requirements was introduced into the insurance scheme. These tougher measures were accompanied by more flexible disqualification mechanisms so that the quota of disqualification times in the insurance scheme rose from 9 per cent in 2004 to almost 29 per cent in 2011 (Bothfeld and Rosenthal, 2014). These rules are even stricter in the Basic Allowance scheme, which prescribes that beneficiaries have to accept any kind of employment or training measures under the threat of losing their benefits.…”

Section: Departure From the Principle Of Status Protectionmentioning

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The End of Social Security as we know it – The Erosion of Status Protection in German Labour Market Policy

Bothfeld

Rosenthal²

2017

J. Soc. Pol.

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The German labour market policy regime constitutes a reliable supporting pillar of the highly productive German employment system. Due to the most recent reforms, its core principle of status protection – a basic norm of the German middle-class-related model of social protection for the population of working age – is losing its formative character. Our analysis focuses on three separate policy principles that form the guiding logic of status centredness, namely the equivalence in security provision, the mechanisms that protect the socio-economic status in the event of unemployment, and the tripartite mode of funding. We argue that the ‘Hartz Reforms’ have reinforced the logic of the legal modifications since the mid-1990s, cumulating now in a shift away from the middle-class-oriented status-centred approach of social security provision.

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The End of Social Security as we know it – The Erosion of Status Protection in German Labour Market Policy

Bothfeld

Rosenthal²

2017

J. Soc. Pol.

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“… 2014 ). Nach einer intensiven Diskussion wurden die maximalen Bezugsdauern im Jahr 2008 für Ältere wieder auf die oben erläuterten aktuellen Bezugsdauern angehoben (Bothfeld und Rosenthal 2014 , S. 203).…”

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Längeres Arbeitslosengeld in der Krise? Covid-19 und die angemessene maximale Bezugsdauer

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ZusammenfassungDieser Beitrag untersucht die Frage, welche Bezugsdauern des Arbeitslosengeldes für welche Personengruppen als angemessen betrachtet werden und ob sich diese Einschätzungen während der Covid-19-Pandemie verändert haben. Längere Bezugsdauern können die Einkommenssituation der Betroffenen stabilisieren und die Suche nach einer qualifikationsadäquaten oder besser entlohnten Stelle unterstützen. Längere Zahlungen mindern aber auch den Druck zur Arbeitsaufnahme, wodurch die Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit zunimmt. Verändern Menschen Abwägungen zwischen individuellem Bedarf, Leistung und gesellschaftlicher Effizienz in der gesundheitlichen und ökonomischen Krise? Wir untersuchen mithilfe von Daten aus Onlinebefragungen im November 2019 und in der Krise im Mai 2020, welche Bezugsdauern (zumeist) Erwerbstätige für angemessen erachten. Dazu wurden den Teilnehmenden Vignetten mit Beschreibungen hypothetischer Arbeitsloser vorgelegt, deren Charakteristika zufällig variieren. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass dieselben Befragten vor und während der Krise sehr ähnliche Bezugsdauern für angemessen halten. Dabei beziehen sie bei der Bemessung der Bezugsdauer für Arbeitslose neben Beitragsprinzipien auch Kriterien der Bedürftigkeit mit ein. So beeinflussen Merkmale wie etwa das Alter der Arbeitslosen, ihr eigenes (Nicht‑)Verschulden, ihre Lebensleistungen oder die Länge ihrer Beitragszahlungen das Urteil, welche Dauer des Leistungsbezugs als angemessen angesehen wird.

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“…Standard employment relations have become more diverse in terms of wages and working hours and, to some extent, have given way to new ways of mobilising labour (Werkverträge, Leiharbeit, Solo-Selbstä ndigkeit, Praktiken). Similarly, the recent growth in employment that can be attributed to the sharp rise in employment rates for workers between the ages of 55 and 64 (37 per cent in 2000 and 62 per cent in 2015) was caused by question marks over the early retirement options introduced under successive pension reforms (Hüfner and Klein, 2012;Knuth, 2014), to which insiders were no more immune than they otherwise were to the reform of unemployment insurance (Bothfeld and Rosenthal, 2014).…”

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The grey zone and labour market dynamics in Germany

Giraud

Lechevalier

2018

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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In this article, we define the ‘grey zone’ as the proliferation of categories of employment and the growing dissonance between those categories and the realities of the labour market. Against the background of the weakening of the standard employment relationship, and going beyond the dualism of the labour market, there are three processes by which the employment norm is differentiated: the institutionalisation of new employment categories by public authorities, the influence of collective norms on the framing of employment categories by organised groups such as unions and employers’ associations, and the uses of those norms by social actors such as companies. In this article, we first describe the evolution of the German labour market over the past 20 years. We then shed light on the dynamics of the grey zones of employment in Germany by drawing on two strands – self-employment and traineeships – and by distinguishing the three differentiation mechanisms.

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Paradigmenwechsel durch inkrementellen Wandel: Was bleibt von der Arbeitslosenversicherung?

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The End of Social Security as we know it – The Erosion of Status Protection in German Labour Market Policy

The End of Social Security as we know it – The Erosion of Status Protection in German Labour Market Policy

Längeres Arbeitslosengeld in der Krise? Covid-19 und die angemessene maximale Bezugsdauer

The grey zone and labour market dynamics in Germany

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