Karl Hinrichs
Biographic Data
| ID | 277865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karl Hinrichs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karl |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinrichs |
| SIGNATURE | HINRICHS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bremen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4730-2626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Recent pension reforms in Europe: More challenges, new directions. An overview
During the last 30 years, all European Union member states have reformed their pension systems. In view of ongoing and intensifying population aging, efforts have aimed at containing the future rise of the contribution rate, improving the system dependency ratio, lowering the benefit ratio and/or infusing tax money or other financial resources into the system. Moreover, since about the early 2000s, we can observe a move towards a multi‐pillar pen…
Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow?
Increasingly flexible labour markets and reforms of old-age pension systems are still ranking high on the political agenda of European countries. This volume investigates whether, and to what extent
Germany: A Flexible Labour Market Plus Pension Reforms Means Poverty in Old Age
In Germany, as in most other European countries, the income position of elderly people has improved over recent decades. Declining poverty risk rates indicate these positive developments, although there are substantial differences among EU member states (European Commission, 2006, p. 54; OECD, 2009, p. 62). Looking at people aged 65 and older in Germany who actually receive means-tested basic security benefits, poverty for them appears to be a mi…
Statistical Discrimination and Employers' Recruitment
This paper deals with the recruitment strategies of employers in the low-skilled segment of the labour market. We focus on low-skilled workers because they are overrepresented among jobless people and constitute the bulk of the clientele included in various activation and labour market programmes. A better understanding of the constraints and opportunities of interventions in this labour market segment may help improve their quality and effective…
Ageing, health and pensions in Europe: An economic and social policy perspective – Edited by Lans Bovenberg, Arthur Van Soest, Asghar Zaidi
A Social Insurance State Withers Away. Welfare State Reforms in Germany – Or: Attempts to Turn Around in a Cul-de-Sac
Germany can be characterized as the “social insurance state ” par excellence. In 2003, about 44 percent of the general government’s outlays ran through the various social insurance schemes, and they disbursed roughly two thirds of total social expenditure (according to national calculations). Social insurance spending amounted to more than one fifth of GDP
Reforming labour market policy in Germany
Active and passive labour market policy in Germany has been reformed by a series of laws implemented between 2003 and 2005. This article focuses on the fundamental and most controversial change of income support for unemployed people. The so-called Hartz IV reform had grave implications for many of those who were long-term unemployed and came at a high price for the then incumbent coalition government of Social Democrats and the Green Party, even…
Faut-il accoder le droit de vote aux enfants
Hinrichs Karl,Deschepper Jean-Pierre,de Briey Laurent,Thirion BenoîtHinrichs Karl, Deschepper Jean-Pierre, de Briey Laurent, Thirion Benoît. Faut-il accorder le droit de vote aux enfants?. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 105, n°1-2, 2007. pp. 42-76
Reforming European pension systems for active ageing
The article explores the trend towards early exit that has established itself over the last decades in most European countries, and the policies that 10 countries (Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and the UK) have developed to tackle that problem. The research question is whether those reforms contribute to active ageing. The authors also analyse factors that may foster or hinder the succe…
New Century – New Paradigm: Pension Reforms in Germany
This book comprehensively documents developments in pension policy in eleven advanced industrial countries in Western Europe, East Asia and North America. In order to explore what population ageing means for the sustainability of pension systems, the authors present a detailed review of pension policy making over the past two decades and provide up-to-date analysis of current pension legislation. They examine the factors that can facilitate or im…
Alterssicherungspolitik in Deutschland: Zwischen Kontinuität und Paradigmenwechsel
In diversen Publikationen während der letzten zehn Jahre ist Helmut Wiesenthal (z.B. 2000; 2001) der theoretisch begründeten Skepsis entgegengetreten, dass grundlegende Gesellschaftsreformen so gut wie unwahrscheinlich sind. Die Belege für die politische Möglichkeit holistischer Reformen entstammen seiner eingehenden Untersuchung der Transformationsgesellschaften in Mittel- und Osteuropa, denen es überwiegend gelang, gleichzeitig ökonomische Inst…
When Is a Change Big Enough to Be a System Shift? Small System‐shifting Changes in German and Finnish Pension Policies
In the wake of Esping‐Andersen's and Pierson's landmark publications, comparative welfare state research has revolved around the retrenchment of social policy and the transformation of welfare state regimes. One of the chief problems of these studies is the treatment of time. Very often, changes are incremental and their real impacts are not immediately visible but take years or even decades before the consequences fully materialize. The purpose …
Health Care Policy in the German Social Insurance State: From Solidarity to Privatization
Statutory health insurance is a centerpiece of the German welfare state, which considers itself to be a “social insurance state.” At the same time, due to a large volume of interpersonal redistributions that occur in health insurance, it is the most ambitious branch of the country's social insurance system. The stability of the health scheme thus depends on a “culture of solidarity” to maintain the legitimacy of these redistributions. This articl…
What can be Learned from Whom? Germany's Employment Problem in Comparative Perspective
In several (large) states of the European continent, particularly in Germany, progress in bringing down high unemployment has been slow. In contrast, 'employment miracles' occurring in a number of countries of the Western world receive increasing attention and raise the question of what can be learned from their obviously more successful political strategies and institutional reforms for attaining better employment performance. The first part of …
Do the old exploit the young? Is enfranchising children a good idea
Child poverty rates exceed those of elderly people in almost all Western nations. Moreover, it can be expected that the presently young generation (and yet unborn) will (far) less benefit from the welfare state than the elderly generation does and will continue to do. These inequalities between age groups and intergenerational inequities are, to a large extent, the result of the increasing numerical weight of elderly voters among the electorate t…
Elephants on the move. Patterns of public pension reform in OECD countries
Among OECD countries there are two clusters of old-age security systems: (1) ‘Social insurance’ countries had, by the end of the 1960s, fashioned the core of old-age security as public, contributory, earnings-related and unfunded insurance schemes; (2) a diverse collection of countries that, after 1970, topped up their basic pension arrangements with funded occupational pension schemes with (almost) universal coverage. ‘Social insurance’ countrie…
The Impact of German Health Insurance Reforms on Redistribution and the Culture of Solidarity
The statutory health care scheme represents the most ambitious branch of the German social insurance system because it entails interpersonal redistribution on a large scale. The stability of this centerpiece of the German welfare state thus depends on a “culture of solidarity” to maintain the legitimacy of these redistributions. In this article, the present debate on restructuring the welfare state in general is analyzed. However, the focus is on…
The Long Road to Long-Term Care Insurance in Germany
This paper represents a case study in welfare state expansion. It takes an actor-centered point of view and reconstructs the long process which has ultimately led to a compromise solution to the problem of providing long-term care, especially for the elderly. It describes the previously means-tested arrangement of long-term care provision and its shortcomings. Furthermore, it sketches the different stages through which the political debate on thi…
Working Time in Transition: The Political Economy of Working Hours in Industrial Nations
1. From Standardization to Flexibility Changes in the Political Economy of Working Time - Karl Hinrichs, William Roche, and Carmen Sirianni 2. Working Time Development in West Germany: Departure to a New Stage - Karl Hinrichs 3. Working Time Policies in France - Jean-Pierre Jallade 4. The Chimera of Changing Employee Time Preferences: Working Hours In British Industrial Relations since the Second World War - William Roche 5. Where Have All the Ho…
Public pensions and demographic change
Problems of Employment-Effective Working Time Policies - Theoretical Considerations and Lessons from France, the Netherlands and West Germany
Central to this paper is the question of whether the actors dealing with working time policy are in the position to adopt a policy of working time reduction when unemployment becomes acute and to make it an effective strategy for improving the employment situation. Particularly relevant to this question are the intraorganisational problems of unions reaching a consensus on this issue. Unions' strategic problems are analysed as well as the precond…
The Crisis of the Welfare State and Alternative Modes of Work Redistribution
Working time policy as class-oriented strategy: Unions and shorter working hours in Great Britain and West Germany
KARL HINRICHS, WILLIAM K. ROCHE, HELMUT WIESENTHAL; Working time policy as class-oriented strategy: unions and shorter working hours in Great Britain and West G
Diskussion. Armut – nur ein Restproblem des Sozialstaates: Eine Erwiderung auf die Kritik von Kohl/Leisering (ZfS Oktober 1982)
Armut und Arbeitsmarkt: Zum Zusammenhang von Klassenlagen und Verarmungsrisiken im Sozialstaat
In der bundesrepublikanischen Armutsdiskussion werden vorrangig Probleme der Messung der Armutsbevölkerung sowie Lücken im sozialen Sicherungssystem thematisiert. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt dagegen die Verursachungsbedingungen im primären Verteilungssystem in den Vordergrund. Deshalb werden Arbeitsmarktprozesse zum Ausgangspunkt der Analyse von Armut genommen. Erst in einem zweiten Schritt wird nach den Bedingungen, Möglichkeiten und Restrikt…
Elephants on the move. Patterns of public pension reform in OECD countries
Among OECD countries there are two clusters of old-age security systems: (1) ‘Social insurance’ countries had, by the end of the 1960s, fashioned the core of old-age security as public, contributory, earnings-related and unfunded insurance schemes; (2) a diverse collection of countries that, after 1970, topped up their basic pension arrangements with funded occupational pension schemes with (almost) universal coverage. ‘Social insurance’ countrie…
When Is a Change Big Enough to Be a System Shift? Small System‐shifting Changes in German and Finnish Pension Policies
In the wake of Esping‐Andersen's and Pierson's landmark publications, comparative welfare state research has revolved around the retrenchment of social policy and the transformation of welfare state regimes. One of the chief problems of these studies is the treatment of time. Very often, changes are incremental and their real impacts are not immediately visible but take years or even decades before the consequences fully materialize. The purpose …
The Long Road to Long-Term Care Insurance in Germany
This paper represents a case study in welfare state expansion. It takes an actor-centered point of view and reconstructs the long process which has ultimately led to a compromise solution to the problem of providing long-term care, especially for the elderly. It describes the previously means-tested arrangement of long-term care provision and its shortcomings. Furthermore, it sketches the different stages through which the political debate on thi…
Statistical Discrimination and Employers' Recruitment
This paper deals with the recruitment strategies of employers in the low-skilled segment of the labour market. We focus on low-skilled workers because they are overrepresented among jobless people and constitute the bulk of the clientele included in various activation and labour market programmes. A better understanding of the constraints and opportunities of interventions in this labour market segment may help improve their quality and effective…
Recent pension reforms in Europe: More challenges, new directions. An overview
During the last 30 years, all European Union member states have reformed their pension systems. In view of ongoing and intensifying population aging, efforts have aimed at containing the future rise of the contribution rate, improving the system dependency ratio, lowering the benefit ratio and/or infusing tax money or other financial resources into the system. Moreover, since about the early 2000s, we can observe a move towards a multi‐pillar pen…
Do the old exploit the young? Is enfranchising children a good idea
Child poverty rates exceed those of elderly people in almost all Western nations. Moreover, it can be expected that the presently young generation (and yet unborn) will (far) less benefit from the welfare state than the elderly generation does and will continue to do. These inequalities between age groups and intergenerational inequities are, to a large extent, the result of the increasing numerical weight of elderly voters among the electorate t…
Working time policy as class-oriented strategy: Unions and shorter working hours in Great Britain and West Germany
KARL HINRICHS, WILLIAM K. ROCHE, HELMUT WIESENTHAL; Working time policy as class-oriented strategy: unions and shorter working hours in Great Britain and West G
Problems of Employment-Effective Working Time Policies - Theoretical Considerations and Lessons from France, the Netherlands and West Germany
Central to this paper is the question of whether the actors dealing with working time policy are in the position to adopt a policy of working time reduction when unemployment becomes acute and to make it an effective strategy for improving the employment situation. Particularly relevant to this question are the intraorganisational problems of unions reaching a consensus on this issue. Unions' strategic problems are analysed as well as the precond…
Armut und Arbeitsmarkt: Zum Zusammenhang von Klassenlagen und Verarmungsrisiken im Sozialstaat
In der bundesrepublikanischen Armutsdiskussion werden vorrangig Probleme der Messung der Armutsbevölkerung sowie Lücken im sozialen Sicherungssystem thematisiert. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt dagegen die Verursachungsbedingungen im primären Verteilungssystem in den Vordergrund. Deshalb werden Arbeitsmarktprozesse zum Ausgangspunkt der Analyse von Armut genommen. Erst in einem zweiten Schritt wird nach den Bedingungen, Möglichkeiten und Restrikt…
Health Care Policy in the German Social Insurance State: From Solidarity to Privatization
Statutory health insurance is a centerpiece of the German welfare state, which considers itself to be a “social insurance state.” At the same time, due to a large volume of interpersonal redistributions that occur in health insurance, it is the most ambitious branch of the country's social insurance system. The stability of the health scheme thus depends on a “culture of solidarity” to maintain the legitimacy of these redistributions. This articl…
Diskussion. Armut – nur ein Restproblem des Sozialstaates: Eine Erwiderung auf die Kritik von Kohl/Leisering (ZfS Oktober 1982)
Armut und Arbeitsmarkt: Zum Zusammenhang von Klassenlagen und Verarmungsrisiken im Sozialstaat
In der bundesrepublikanischen Armutsdiskussion werden vorrangig Probleme der Messung der Armutsbevölkerung sowie Lücken im sozialen Sicherungssystem thematisiert. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt dagegen die Verursachungsbedingungen im primären Verteilungssystem in den Vordergrund. Deshalb werden Arbeitsmarktprozesse zum Ausgangspunkt der Analyse von Armut genommen. Erst in einem zweiten Schritt wird nach den Bedingungen, Möglichkeiten und Restrikt…
Diskussion. Armut – nur ein Restproblem des Sozialstaates: Eine Erwiderung auf die Kritik von Kohl/Leisering (ZfS Oktober 1982)
The Crisis of the Welfare State and Alternative Modes of Work Redistribution
Working time policy as class-oriented strategy: Unions and shorter working hours in Great Britain and West Germany
KARL HINRICHS, WILLIAM K. ROCHE, HELMUT WIESENTHAL; Working time policy as class-oriented strategy: unions and shorter working hours in Great Britain and West G
Problems of Employment-Effective Working Time Policies - Theoretical Considerations and Lessons from France, the Netherlands and West Germany
Central to this paper is the question of whether the actors dealing with working time policy are in the position to adopt a policy of working time reduction when unemployment becomes acute and to make it an effective strategy for improving the employment situation. Particularly relevant to this question are the intraorganisational problems of unions reaching a consensus on this issue. Unions' strategic problems are analysed as well as the precond…
Public pensions and demographic change
Working Time in Transition: The Political Economy of Working Hours in Industrial Nations
1. From Standardization to Flexibility Changes in the Political Economy of Working Time - Karl Hinrichs, William Roche, and Carmen Sirianni 2. Working Time Development in West Germany: Departure to a New Stage - Karl Hinrichs 3. Working Time Policies in France - Jean-Pierre Jallade 4. The Chimera of Changing Employee Time Preferences: Working Hours In British Industrial Relations since the Second World War - William Roche 5. Where Have All the Ho…
The Long Road to Long-Term Care Insurance in Germany
This paper represents a case study in welfare state expansion. It takes an actor-centered point of view and reconstructs the long process which has ultimately led to a compromise solution to the problem of providing long-term care, especially for the elderly. It describes the previously means-tested arrangement of long-term care provision and its shortcomings. Furthermore, it sketches the different stages through which the political debate on thi…
The Impact of German Health Insurance Reforms on Redistribution and the Culture of Solidarity
The statutory health care scheme represents the most ambitious branch of the German social insurance system because it entails interpersonal redistribution on a large scale. The stability of this centerpiece of the German welfare state thus depends on a “culture of solidarity” to maintain the legitimacy of these redistributions. In this article, the present debate on restructuring the welfare state in general is analyzed. However, the focus is on…
Elephants on the move. Patterns of public pension reform in OECD countries
Among OECD countries there are two clusters of old-age security systems: (1) ‘Social insurance’ countries had, by the end of the 1960s, fashioned the core of old-age security as public, contributory, earnings-related and unfunded insurance schemes; (2) a diverse collection of countries that, after 1970, topped up their basic pension arrangements with funded occupational pension schemes with (almost) universal coverage. ‘Social insurance’ countrie…
Health Care Policy in the German Social Insurance State: From Solidarity to Privatization
Statutory health insurance is a centerpiece of the German welfare state, which considers itself to be a “social insurance state.” At the same time, due to a large volume of interpersonal redistributions that occur in health insurance, it is the most ambitious branch of the country's social insurance system. The stability of the health scheme thus depends on a “culture of solidarity” to maintain the legitimacy of these redistributions. This articl…
What can be Learned from Whom? Germany's Employment Problem in Comparative Perspective
In several (large) states of the European continent, particularly in Germany, progress in bringing down high unemployment has been slow. In contrast, 'employment miracles' occurring in a number of countries of the Western world receive increasing attention and raise the question of what can be learned from their obviously more successful political strategies and institutional reforms for attaining better employment performance. The first part of …
Do the old exploit the young? Is enfranchising children a good idea
Child poverty rates exceed those of elderly people in almost all Western nations. Moreover, it can be expected that the presently young generation (and yet unborn) will (far) less benefit from the welfare state than the elderly generation does and will continue to do. These inequalities between age groups and intergenerational inequities are, to a large extent, the result of the increasing numerical weight of elderly voters among the electorate t…
When Is a Change Big Enough to Be a System Shift? Small System‐shifting Changes in German and Finnish Pension Policies
In the wake of Esping‐Andersen's and Pierson's landmark publications, comparative welfare state research has revolved around the retrenchment of social policy and the transformation of welfare state regimes. One of the chief problems of these studies is the treatment of time. Very often, changes are incremental and their real impacts are not immediately visible but take years or even decades before the consequences fully materialize. The purpose …
Alterssicherungspolitik in Deutschland: Zwischen Kontinuität und Paradigmenwechsel
In diversen Publikationen während der letzten zehn Jahre ist Helmut Wiesenthal (z.B. 2000; 2001) der theoretisch begründeten Skepsis entgegengetreten, dass grundlegende Gesellschaftsreformen so gut wie unwahrscheinlich sind. Die Belege für die politische Möglichkeit holistischer Reformen entstammen seiner eingehenden Untersuchung der Transformationsgesellschaften in Mittel- und Osteuropa, denen es überwiegend gelang, gleichzeitig ökonomische Inst…
New Century – New Paradigm: Pension Reforms in Germany
This book comprehensively documents developments in pension policy in eleven advanced industrial countries in Western Europe, East Asia and North America. In order to explore what population ageing means for the sustainability of pension systems, the authors present a detailed review of pension policy making over the past two decades and provide up-to-date analysis of current pension legislation. They examine the factors that can facilitate or im…
Reforming European pension systems for active ageing
The article explores the trend towards early exit that has established itself over the last decades in most European countries, and the policies that 10 countries (Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and the UK) have developed to tackle that problem. The research question is whether those reforms contribute to active ageing. The authors also analyse factors that may foster or hinder the succe…
Reforming labour market policy in Germany
Active and passive labour market policy in Germany has been reformed by a series of laws implemented between 2003 and 2005. This article focuses on the fundamental and most controversial change of income support for unemployed people. The so-called Hartz IV reform had grave implications for many of those who were long-term unemployed and came at a high price for the then incumbent coalition government of Social Democrats and the Green Party, even…
Faut-il accoder le droit de vote aux enfants
Hinrichs Karl,Deschepper Jean-Pierre,de Briey Laurent,Thirion BenoîtHinrichs Karl, Deschepper Jean-Pierre, de Briey Laurent, Thirion Benoît. Faut-il accorder le droit de vote aux enfants?. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 105, n°1-2, 2007. pp. 42-76
A Social Insurance State Withers Away. Welfare State Reforms in Germany – Or: Attempts to Turn Around in a Cul-de-Sac
Germany can be characterized as the “social insurance state ” par excellence. In 2003, about 44 percent of the general government’s outlays ran through the various social insurance schemes, and they disbursed roughly two thirds of total social expenditure (according to national calculations). Social insurance spending amounted to more than one fifth of GDP
Ageing, health and pensions in Europe: An economic and social policy perspective – Edited by Lans Bovenberg, Arthur Van Soest, Asghar Zaidi
Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow?
Increasingly flexible labour markets and reforms of old-age pension systems are still ranking high on the political agenda of European countries. This volume investigates whether, and to what extent
Germany: A Flexible Labour Market Plus Pension Reforms Means Poverty in Old Age
In Germany, as in most other European countries, the income position of elderly people has improved over recent decades. Declining poverty risk rates indicate these positive developments, although there are substantial differences among EU member states (European Commission, 2006, p. 54; OECD, 2009, p. 62). Looking at people aged 65 and older in Germany who actually receive means-tested basic security benefits, poverty for them appears to be a mi…
Statistical Discrimination and Employers' Recruitment
This paper deals with the recruitment strategies of employers in the low-skilled segment of the labour market. We focus on low-skilled workers because they are overrepresented among jobless people and constitute the bulk of the clientele included in various activation and labour market programmes. A better understanding of the constraints and opportunities of interventions in this labour market segment may help improve their quality and effective…
Recent pension reforms in Europe: More challenges, new directions. An overview
During the last 30 years, all European Union member states have reformed their pension systems. In view of ongoing and intensifying population aging, efforts have aimed at containing the future rise of the contribution rate, improving the system dependency ratio, lowering the benefit ratio and/or infusing tax money or other financial resources into the system. Moreover, since about the early 2000s, we can observe a move towards a multi‐pillar pen…
Political science (22 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (19 works) · Economics (18 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Pension (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Finance (7 works) · Labour economics (7 works)