Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …

We analyse the impact of increased immigration on labour market outcomes of natives in Germany using a dataset of … previous level. Especially for unemployment we find large effects of an increased foreign share. We conjecture that these … results might be spurious. Foreigners tend to be concentrated in lower unemployment areas but unemployment tends to be mean …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

The purpose of this paper is to link the twin horns of the European economic dilemma - unemployment and a loss in … international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with … the Standortkrise (location crisis) and the Arbeitslosenkrise (unemployment crisis) to form a triad of economic challenges …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

to non-wage labour costs. We also find positive effects on the transitions from unemployment and temporary employment …

The transition in East Germany has been characterized by an extremely rapid privatization of state-owned enterprises … East Germany has been deindustrialized with employment in mining and manufacturing falling to one quarter of its pre …

suggests that this may be a serious omission. Given the labour market conditions in East Germany today, it is shown that the … wage subsidies. The intuition underlying this result is that given the structure of wage bargaining in East Germany, wage …

the East. Of more relevance to other cases of transformation is the fact that East Germany was immediately brought into …. In doing so, German union has created a unique environment for transformation in East Germany. In this paper, I review … East Germany's fast integration into the Western trading and financial system . These factors may help in the longer run to …