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Maryland Population Research Center
2003-2004 Seminar Series

SPEAKER:	Alexander Spermann Head of Department Labour Markets, Human Resources, and Social Policy Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
TITLE:	"Labour Market Policy Reform in Germany: Evaluation as a drug for the sick man of Europe"**
DATE:	Tuesday April 27, 2004
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	1101 Art-Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Campus
Dr. Alexander Spermann has been Head of the Department Labour Market, Human Resources and Social Policy at the ZEW Mannheim since April 2002. He studied economics at the Universities of Passau and Freiburg (Diploma 1988) and finished his doctorate at the University of Freiburg in 1992. His dissertation was on urban fiscal stress and local cutback-management strategies as a consequence of boosting public assistance expenditures in the eighties (a case study on Baden- Wuerttemberg). He finished his habilitation thesis entitled "Negative Income Tax, wage subsidies and long-term unemployment" at the University of Freiburg in 1999 and has been a lecturer since then. The core of his habilitation thesis was the so-called "Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT)" - a time-restricted employee subsidy for meanstested long-term unemployed. TNIT was implemented in practice in 16 cities and counties in the states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Hesse between 1999 and 2002. For the first time in Germany, some of the experiments were conducted as social experiments with program and control groups in the same local labour market. TNIT has been implemented nationwide since 2004.

**This Event is Co-Sponsored with Department of Economics

Please join us for this brown bag event. For the series schedule, please refer to http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/spring2004.shtml