unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. The results have potentially important policy …

play an important role in explaining the lackluster German economic performance of which rising unemployment is only one …

market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find … market, as well as with lower unemployment. …

Up to now there was a general conviction that increasing unemployment and inflation have a negative impact on the … the Schröder government. While the results for the former show the known pattern, neither unemployment nor inflation is … significant in the equations of the Schröder government, the latter has even the wrong sign. The missing impact of unemployment …