In the wake of the recent economic crisis, unemployment rates in many countries have
notably increased and the question of how to promote employment and combat …

The repercussions of the Great Recession of 2008/9 have been discussed diligently in the
past years and have renewed the focus on the question of nations' productivity development …

This paper reviews the dramatic and widely noted developments in the German labor market
in the past decade and surveys the most plausible reasons for these changes. Alternative …

From 2003 to 2018, employment in Germany increased by 7.3 million, or by 19.3%–growth
not observed since unification. This “labor market miracle” was marked by a persistent and …

Since the 2008-2009 global financial and economic crisis, the division within the European
Union and the eurozone has deepened. Crisis-hit countries such as Greece and Spain have …

International comparison reveals an astonishingly moderate response of the German labour
market to the world-wide economic crisis. Although GDP shrunk by 4.7 percent in 2009, the …

What explains Germany's exceptional labor market performance during the Great Recession
of 2008-09? Contrary to accounts that emphasize employment protection legislation or …