-time employment. Supported by wage flexibility in this segment, part-time employment represents an important new margin of flexibility …

insured full-time and part-time employment in years preceding and following the implementation of the landmark Hartz reforms … that part-time employment played a decisive role in the post-2003 improvement of the German labor market. …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 … traditional government-sponsored short-time work. -- unemployment ; Germany ; Great Recession ; short time work ; working time …