How and why nations adopt systemic change reveals much about their underlying economic, societal, and governmental basis. Such lessons are evident in this volume that explores how two nations with widely divergent political economies - Germany and the United States - embraced change in four...

This book examines the nature of the workforce development and UI policy decisions made nationwide in response to the recession, state and local administrators’ perspectives on the policy developments and economic challenges, and implementation of key Recovery Act provisions, with a particular...