In January 2000, the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände, BDA) presented a paper in which it calls for fundamental reforms in labour market policy. These proposals are embedded in a fundamental criticism of the current economy policy
Early in January 2000 the Federal Ministry for Economy and Technology and the Federal Ministry for Family and Women stated that they were developing a new law for achieving greater gender equality. One crucial aspect of the plan is the intention to fix a framework for the award of public contracts
The German federal railways have been undergoing a lengthy process of privatisation. In 1993 the federal parliament (Bundestag) passed a law concerning the reorganisation of the railway sector. This law regulates, among other matters, the status of the former career public servants [1] (Beamte)
On 8 December 1999, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) presented its new "Economic Survey for Germany". While the government of Prime Minister Gerhard Schröder expressed satisfaction with the Paris-based organisation's overall positive assessment of its economic
On 12 October 1999, two social and economic research institutes, namely the Dortmund Institute for Social Research (Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund, SFS) and the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research (Ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) submitted reports on the effects of longer