separate papers, the first four investigate the effectiveness of active labor market policy in Germany using various estimation … challenge in Germany and other European countries. Despite the current improvement of the labor market situation and decreasing … rates in Germany, unemployment is still one of the greatest social problems today. As the unemployment is largely caused by …

, and policy from a gender perspective. The global perspective provided through themes and authors is a very useful … vision of what "the economy" is, and how it works. Gender scholars are on the forefront of developing better, more … broadly into the myriad ways that gender shapes and alters economic lives and illuminates complex facets of the economic and …