Though I wonder how these changes have actually had effects on these sectors, as this basically just produced a low payment workforce that these days benefits low paying unicorns like Uber, etc.
All that Germany basically did was to change social law so that a higher amount of people would end up within the lower range of the work force and make it harder to get out.
E.g. effectively these days losing your job for longer term means you have to liquidate all your assets as a German until you have nothing left before social service would help you.
Coming back to the article, as a German I actually do not remember any larger structural reforms that would have had beneficial effects on mid to high skilled workers. Looking at my own 25 years of working I would say... I notice an increase in costs for maintaining the high skill level and income completely being almost irrelevant because of devaluation of currency and almost no increases in the market in the past two decades.
All that Germany basically did was to change social law so that a higher amount of people would end up within the lower range of the work force and make it harder to get out.
E.g. effectively these days losing your job for longer term means you have to liquidate all your assets as a German until you have nothing left before social service would help you.
Coming back to the article, as a German I actually do not remember any larger structural reforms that would have had beneficial effects on mid to high skilled workers. Looking at my own 25 years of working I would say... I notice an increase in costs for maintaining the high skill level and income completely being almost irrelevant because of devaluation of currency and almost no increases in the market in the past two decades.