After the Hartz reforms of 2003-2005, unemployment in Germany has gone down significantly. Using a structural … less than 0.1 percentage point of the decline in the observed unemployment rate. A substantial degree of influence, to the … contrary, is attributed to the preceding Hartz III reform. Thus, the reduction of unemployment compensation could have been …

With the Corona crisis, unemployment is increasing in Germany despite all the countermeasures taken. In previous … recessions, unemployment of the low-skilled in particular has become entrenched. Today, it is becoming apparent that …