The paper analyzes why Germany experiences the high and sticky unemployment. It looks at wage policy and proposes a new … approach to measure productivity growth when unemployment increases. It studies the position of trade unions and the …Der Beitrag analysiert, warum die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland so hoch ist. Er diskutiert die Rolle der Lohnpolitik …

Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other …

share of long-term unemployment. The rise in unemployment and its persistently high level have been blamed, both in Italy … of unemployment. An additional dimension of "segmentation" also characterises the Italian labour market, notably the 30 … percent's unemployment rate in the South (6 percent in the North) and the presence of a large share of the labour force …