"The German workfare programme 'One-Euro-Jobs' can be used for different goals. On the one hand, they aim at improving employment prospects of long-term jobless welfare recipients. On the other hand, they can also be used to test the willingness to work of welfare recipients. Based on data from...

In Germany, older unemployed people aged 58 or more years have been exempt from a fundamental principle of activating labour market policy until 2007: They have been entitled to unemployment benefit payments until taking up retirement pension without having to seek new employment (Section 428 of...

"In Germany, older unemployed people aged 58 or more years have been exempt from a fundamental principle of activating labour market policy until 2007: They have been entitled to unemployment benefit payments until taking up retirement pension without having to seek new employment (Section 428...

"In Germany, older unemployed people aged 58 or more years have been exempt from a fundamental principle of activating labour market policy until 2007: They have been entitled to unemployment benefit payments until taking up retirement pension without having to seek new employment (Section 428...

"Wie schlecht oder wie gut geht es den Arbeitslosen? In der öffentlichen Debatte der Arbeitslosigkeit spielt diese Frage - jedenfalls im Westen mit seiner prosperierenden Wirtschaft - eine wichtige Rolle. Weisen die einen auf die zunehmende 'neue Armut' im Gefolge von Arbeitslosigkeit hin,...

"Wie schlecht oder wie gut geht es den Arbeitslosen? In der öffentlichen Debatte der Arbeitslosigkeit spielt diese Frage - jedenfalls im Westen mit seiner prosperierenden Wirtschaft - eine wichtige Rolle. Weisen die einen auf die zunehmende 'neue Armut' im Gefolge von Arbeitslosigkeit hin,...