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

allows us to control for unmeasured country-specific factors that affect relative employment and unemployment, we find that … of young and older individuals relative to the prime-aged, with no significant effects on the relative unemployment of … raises female unemployment relative to male unemployment. These results suggest that union wage-setting policies price the …

A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …

to lower unemployment. Whether work-sharing works - whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced - is …

A transformation of what had become a universal 40 hour standard work week in Germany began in 1985 with reductions …

West Germany's Employment Promotion Act of 1985 facilitated the use of fixed term contracts and increased the number of …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …