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 …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …