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...