%0 Report %A Collier, Irwin %T Can Gerhard Schröder Do It? Prospects for Fundamental Reform of the German Economy and a Return to High Employment %D 2004 %8 2004 Mar %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 1059 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1059 %X The year 2003 has witnessed several major reform policy initiatives in Germany intended to contribute to a solution to Germany's high unemployment problem and to improve the longrun sustainability of its social welfare policies. These economic reforms are discussed within a larger macroeconomic context. %K social policy reform %K labor market reform %K unemployment