Herzog-Stein, Alex; Logeay, Camille - In: Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik) 61 (2010) Supplement, pp. 89-124
Since the 1970s the German economy suffered from a pattern of step-wise rises in unemployment which was only broken … during the last expansion in economic activity as the unemployment rate dropped to levels unseen since the 1990s. Against the … backdrop of recent major labor market reforms this raises the question about the reasons for these shifts in unemployment over …