![]() ![]() It’s just that the Agenda played only a limited role in this matter. Perhaps there’s benefit in wage restraints which have so enhanced our competitiveness. Once a person has dropped out of the labor market or lacks skills, cutting the unemployment benefits won’t help either. At any rate, in Germany the proportion of the unemployed (44 percent) who are out of work beyond a year’s time is still higher compared to average numbers in the OECD countries (35 percent). Another one of those reform nonstarters.Īnd what about the labor market reform? Isn’t it true that the shortened allowed period for collecting unemployment benefits put pressure on all those who (allegedly) don’t feel like working? Hmmm. Oh, and there would also be no withholding tax, which by now our minister of finance wants to abolish again for lack of valid reasons. These had still been permitted in the liberalization fervor of 2003 only to undergo regulation measures right after the financial crisis. ![]() On the other hand, there would be, an awful thought, no hedge funds in Germany. We might still have a home-owners allowance scheme and thus wouldn’t be in need of housing programs. Pensions would still be paid out at the beginning instead of at the end of the month (in all seriousness, at that time of austerity panics this decision was made to relieve the pension funds). Master Craftsman would still be contingent upon earning a Master Craftsman’s diploma. Already, for lack of recognizable benefits some states in Germany have gone back to the old system. Without the zealous drive for reform back then and without the spirit of the Agenda we would still have a traditional thirteen years of schooling to prepare students for university instead of now only twelve years. No Riester pension scheme, counting on capital markets, would have been introduced in Germany even as far back as in 2001 and today we could spare ourselves debates about possibly ditching it for its lack of success. Germany would, of course, also not have come up with a practice fee (įor ambulant medical care), as part of the Agenda, which led nowhere and had to be repealed a few years later. Yes, and a few years earlier he did not take on this restructurer role along with the Brit Tony Blair.īad scenario? Well, not necessarily. An impromptu speech had to be held on, let’s say, the global challenges of animal protection. Let’s just assume that on Maon his way to the office Gerhard Schroeder lost his briefcase - and with it the Agenda speech he was about to deliver. ![]()
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