Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather passive welfare state, strong employment protection and collective bargaining that stabilize diversified quality production. This institutional arrangement was criticized for...

Different models of protection against labor market risks are associated with diverging models of economic performance. Historically established institutional complementarities between labor market regulation, unemployment protection, and vocational training tend to mirror specific national...

The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...

The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...

Youth unemployment has been on the rise since the beginning of the crisis in 2008. Even more troublesome is the dramatic rise in the number of youth not in employment, education or training, which has led to widespread concerns about the impact on social cohesion and fears of a 'lost...

Im Rahmen der Dienstleistungsfreiheit in der EU ist die Entsendung von Arbeitskräften aus den neuen EU-Staaten geregelt. Diskutiert wird derzeit jedoch, ob es aus ökonomischen oder politischen Gründen eine Schutzbestimmung zugunsten inländischer Betriebe und deren Beschäftigten gegen...

Im Rahmen der Dienstleistungsfreiheit in der EU ist die Entsendung von Arbeitskräften aus den neuen EU-Staaten geregelt. Diskutiert wird derzeit jedoch, ob es aus ökonomischen oder politischen Gründen eine Schutzbestimmung zugunsten inländischer Betriebe und deren Beschäftigten gegen...