Germany and the United States pursued different economic strategies to minimise the impact of the Coronavirus Crisis on … the labour market. Germany focused on safeguarding existing jobs through the use of internal flexibility measures … contrasting it with the chosen strategy in the United States. In Germany, temporary cyclical reductions in working hours are …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …

of 2009, including the unemployment, inflow, and outflow rates by workers of different educational attainment. We … the short term, but can cause a higher equilibrium unemployment rate in the long term. Employment subsidies succeed in … lowering the unemployment rate permanently, but the policy entails high fiscal costs. -- Employment ; unemployment ; hiring …