施罗德在21世纪初重组德国劳动力市场的努力在当时引起了巨大的争议；但是，事后看来，施罗德的努力将德国从欧洲病夫变为欧洲大陆的出口冠军。
Schröder’s reshaping of Germany’s labor market in the early 2000s was hugely controversial at the time; but, in retrospect, it turned Germany from the sick man of Europe into the continent’s export powerhouse.