The unemployment rate in Germany after reaching a peak of 12.1% in 2005 began to decline steadily, and the improvement … functioning of the labour market in Germany that are relevant to the response to the crisis. Accordingly, the buffers are examined …

This paper points out an empirical failing of real business cycle models in which unemployment is endogenized through a … matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model … as it is in the data, or to make the response of unemployment to a change in the unemployment benefit as small in the …

Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland zu einem großen Teil auf die anhaltende Schwäche der Binnennachfrage zurückzuführen ist. … employment is presented. We provide some theoretical arguments which cast doubt on the standard thesis that unemployment … - especially in Germany - is mainly caused by labor market institutions and excessive wages. Rather there are several indications …

these issues in theory and carries out their preliminary verification on the example of Germany's social system of …