Günther Schmid

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Günther Schmid (* 1942 in Konstanz ) is a German economist and professor emeritus at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

He grew up in Mimmenhausen (today the Salem municipality in Baden-Württemberg), learned Lake Constance as his mother tongue and graduated from the Überlingen grammar school in 1962 . He finished the two years of military service and contract soldier as a lieutenant in the reserve. He began studying political science , history and sociology in Freiburg im Breisgau and graduated in 1969 with a diploma in political science from the Free University of Berlin; There he received his doctorate in 1973 on the subject of functional analysis and political theory and received his teaching license in 1981 (habilitation: structured unemployment and labor market policy).

From 1970 to 1974 he lectured on political theory and methods at the Free University of Berlin , from 1974 to 1979 as a research assistant, from 1979 to 1989 as deputy director at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). In 1989 he was appointed Director of the Labor Market Policy and Employment Department and in 1990 Professor of Economic Theory of Politics at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2007/2008 he has been associated with these institutions as an emeritus; for 2009/2010 he was appointed visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam.

Visiting professorships led him to the universities of Wisconsin (USA), Stockholm and Växjö (Sweden), Paris-Sorbonne, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna and Netherland Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Wassenaar. As a consultant he worked a. a. for the OECD in Paris and for the European Commission in Brussels . In 2002 he was a member of the benchmarking working group at the Alliance for Work, Training and Competitiveness as well as a member of the "Modern Services on the Labor Market" ( Hartz Commission ) and member of the Employment Task Force of the EU Commission (and co-author of the first "Kok Report") 2004). The University of Växjö awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2005.

His research interests are labor market policy, analysis and comparison of employment systems, evaluation, theory of social coordination, equality, equity and efficiency. In 1962 he received the Georg Thoma Prize (Sport), in 1997 the Schader Prize for Social Sciences in Practice (Political Science category), and in 1999 the first prize for the best German-language social science essays from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation .

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In 1994 Schmid presented a strategy of flexible transition markets, which is seen as a possible societal response to the erosion of normal employment . According to Schmid's approach, the aim is to facilitate transitions between different forms of employment and areas of activity through labor market policy measures and to make them socially secure. Transitions between unemployment and employment, between education and employment, between household and gainful employment, between gainful employment and retirement as well as between short-time and full-time employment should be socially secured through measures of the state labor market and social policy and collective bargaining policy. Schmid's catalog of suitable measures included subsidized jobs, integration grants , advanced training and retraining measures , parental leave and part-time family work .

In 1996 Günther Schmid formulated a model of the “cooperative welfare state” in view of the pluralization of life situations and forms of employment, which should be based on equal rather than uniform living conditions and would contain less a transfer-oriented than a result-oriented family policy.

In an analysis of welfare state regulations in liberal, conservative and social democratic models of the welfare state, Schmid formulated considerations on the design and change of the gender contract . He pointed out which measures offer incentives for effective cooperation among the participants in the competition on the labor market and which can serve a gender-equitable and efficient labor market organization.

Schmid is of the opinion that an employment insurance funded by employers, employees and self-employed persons as well as tax revenues to promote further training can have a preventive effect against unemployment and is more effective than unemployment insurance alone , which takes effect in the event of a total loss of earned income. As a supplement to the "active" component of previous labor market policy, Schmid proposed, in the sense of social risk management, among other things, a contribution-financed personal development account (PEK) supplemented from general tax funds , which could be used according to politically established rules in order to cope with personal transition situations.

Web links

• Literature by and about Günther Schmid in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Günther Schmid
• Günther Schmid at WZB Research (as of 2008)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günther Schmid, Transitions to full employment. Perspectives of a future-oriented labor market policy, in: From Politics and Contemporary History , B 12-13 / 94, p. 9. Quoted from: Rainer Dombois: The difficult parting from normal employment. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 7, 2009 ; Retrieved December 6, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Original under the same title published in: Federal Agency for Political Education (Hrsg.): From politics and contemporary history. Supplement to the weekly newspaper Parliament. B 37/99, Bonn 1999, pp. 13-20  
2. ↑ Old models and new challenges: Labor market policy in the conservative-corporatist welfare state. In: From Politics and Contemporary History (B 21/2001). Federal Agency for Civic Education, 2001, accessed on March 25, 2009 . P. 147 . 
3. ↑ Kirsten Schweiwe: Social security models between individualization and dependencies. (PDF; 2.0 MB) Retrieved March 25, 2009 . P. 147 . 
4. ^ Günther Schmid: Equality and efficiency on the job market. Reflections on change and the design of the “gender contract”. (No longer available online.) In: gender ... politik ... online. April 2004, archived from the original on April 20, 2010 ; accessed on November 29, 2009 ( full text PDF (1.35MB)). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Günther Schmid, Reform of labor market policy. From the caring welfare state to the cooperative welfare state, in: WSI Mitteilungen, 49 (1996) 10, pp. 629–641. Quoted from: Irene Dingeldey, Karin Gottschall: Old models and new challenges: Labor market policy in the conservative-corporatist welfare state. In: From Politics and Contemporary History (B 21/2001). Federal Agency for Civic Education, 2001, accessed on March 25, 2009 . 
6. ^ The solidarity community finances the labor pool. Interview by Günther Schmid by Peter Steinmüller. (PDF; 276 kB) In: ProFirma, pp. 68–71. September 2008, accessed February 22, 2009 . 
7. ^ Günther Schmid: From unemployment insurance to employment insurance. Paths to a new balance between individual responsibility and solidarity through a life-course-oriented labor market policy. (PDF; 449 kB) Department of Economic and Social Policy of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, April 2008, accessed on November 7, 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-89892-878-6 ).