Using data for advanced economies, this paper investigates whether factors identified in the theoretical and empirical literature explain the effectiveness of fiscal policy in responding to recessions. The results are informative about the fiscal response to recessions but provide only a partial...

Hemming, Mahfouz and Schimmelpfennig discuss the effectiveness of fiscal policy in responding to downturns in economic activity. They see this against the background of the contrast between the view that a fiscal expansion is an appropriate policy response to recessions and the experience in...

Using data for advanced economies, this paper investigates whether factors identified in the theoretical and empirical literature explain the effectiveness of fiscal policy in responding to recessions. The results are informative about the fiscal response to recessions but provide only a partial...

The labour-market policy-mix in Germany is increasingly being decided on a regional level. This requires additional knowledge about the regional development which (disaggregated) national forecasts cannot provide. Therefore, we separately forecast employment for the 176 German labour- market...

Die sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung wächst weiter kräftig: Für das kommende Jahr erwarten wir für alle Bundesländer einen Anstieg der Beschäftigung. Mit einem Wert von 2,9 Prozent fällt die Wachstumsrate in Berlin am stärksten aus, im Saarland ist sie mit 0,8 Prozent am...

Das Beschäftigungswachstum setzt sich deutschlandweit fort, jedoch gibt es deutliche regionale Unterschiede: Alle Bundesländer verzeichnen einen weiteren Anstieg der Zahl der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten. Dabei reichen die Wachstumsraten von 3,6 Prozent in Berlin bis 1,2 Prozent...

Active labour-market policy (ALMP) not only affects the labour-market success of participants. Due to indirect effects, they might also affect the job perspectives of non-participants. Hence, even if ALMP programmes have a positive effect for the participants, this does not mean that ALMP...