Main description: Noch ist die Frage nicht abschließend beantwortet und beantwortbar, ob dauerhafte Folgen der Krise bleiben werden, in den Verhaltensweisen der Menschen und in den wirtschaftlichen Strukturen und Indikatoren ebenso wie in der Bedeutung ökonomischer Theorien. Dies gilt auch...

Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...