The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession …

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for …

While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/2019, the incidence of long …-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for >1 year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover, the COVID …-19 pandemic could aggravate the long-term unemployment. This paper explores the factors associated with long …

of active labor market policies. For immigrants having stayed more than 4 years in Germany, however, we do not find a …

, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal …, with firms more likely to survive and thus not exposing much their workers to unemployment risk. Activation programmes … support the reallocation flow from unproductive to productive firms, helping to reduce unemployment. Low employment protection …

The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy …--on the theories` ability to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behavior. The paper considers four types …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust … significant disincentives for labour supply of older people and spouses, which should be eliminated. Unemployment related benefits … Public Employment Service should continue. On the labour demand side, there remains scope to raise the efficiency of Germany …