as a determinant of high unemployment in Europe. Furthermore, a case study analyzes the unemployment problem in Germany …Many European countries have experienced a significant increase of unemployment in recent years. This paper reviews …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …

effectiveness of such subsidized training programmes for means-tested unemployment benefit recipients in Germany. The empirical … job and differences between East and West Germany. As a result we show that vocational training has a considerable … beneficial impact on participants: It reduces the share of unemployment benefit II recipients and raises the employment rate in …