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Lithuania Liberalizes the Labor Code
Economy, Politics
Lithuania Liberalizes the Labor Code
On September 14, 2016, the Lithuanian Parliament endorsed a new Labour Code which will bring about the most notable changes in terms of types of employment contracts, working time and overtime regulation, annual leave, employee dismissal procedures, and the size of severance pay.
Distributive Effects of the German Hartz IV-Reforms
Economy
Distributive Effects of the German Hartz IV-Reforms
The activating labour market reforms of the German government at the beginning of the 21st century (Agenda 2010) were considered to be successful in reducing unemployment, especially long-term unemployment. But the majority of the media and also the majority of the German population consider this reform as socially unfair. While long-term unemployment fell from 1.7 […]