The German labor market after the Great Recession: successful reforms and future challenges

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Caliendo, Marco ^a,c   Hogenacker, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c Chair of Empirical Economics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benefit systems; J26; J38; J68; Labor force participation; Labor supply; Public policy; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983317321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21939012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-9012-1-3     Document Type: Article

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