zurückliegenden Jahren. Beispielhaft skizzieren Finnland, Deutschland, Lettland, Norwegen und Schweden den Ausgangspunkt und die …. Finland, Germany, Latvia, Norway, and Sweden exemplify their starting conditions and labour market reactions to the Great …

Individual unemployment spells are frequently interrupted by short casual employment, by participation in active labour … market policy (ALMP) measures or by periods outside the labour force. Such episodes end unemployment spells but afterwards … problem of being without a "real" job in the longer run. To better grasp this problem of repeated unemployment we analyse …

countries with a special emphasis on Finland. While fiscal and monetary policies have definitely impacted on macroeconomic … important in explaining the differences. In particular, the weakness of growth in Finland can best be explained by a series of …