While southern Europe is still struggling with the European debt crisis, Germany’s economy has, despite minor dents, not come to a halt and so far has withstood any recessive tendency. Especially in Germany, people seem to see a connection between Gerhard Schröder’s Agenda 2010, which was a labor-market reform, which began in 2003. The implementation occurred mainly until 2005 and focused on a liberalization of the labor market. A Japanese researcher even claimed to have found the exact impact, which these reforms have on Germany’s current economic success (Spiegel Online, 2013).