Germany can be regarded as a showcase for labor market reforms. Moreover, its labor market responded only mildly to the …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

policies in Germany were overhauled considerably. The paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusion … for the future setup of active labor market policies in Germany. It argues in favor of a streamlined repertoire of active …