Workfare has had a chequered history because it has not been well thought out. It increases employment not just because … employment subsidy of a type not tried before (except unwittingly as part of workfare). The subsidy is as follows. As full … this is inflationary. This phenomenon is behind NAIRU, the level of unemployment below which it is allegedly impossible to …

employment is presented. We provide some theoretical arguments which cast doubt on the standard thesis that unemployment … that a persistent lack of demand is responsible for the major part of the German unemployment problem. … und Lohn-bedingten Arbeitslosigkeit in Frage stellen. Es deutet vielmehr einiges darauf hin, dass die hohe …

rather than seeing the constituting problem of workfare as one of social policy/social security. Of course, at the end the … workfare. Then a second step will very briefly present the EUropean political debate, returning thereafter to the question what … we are actually dealing with when we talk about workfare. Then, in a third step, a paradox is presented: the gain of …

Using longitudinal information on labour market participation we analyse the dynamics of unemployment in Europe. We …