employment is presented. We provide some theoretical arguments which cast doubt on the standard thesis that unemployment … that a persistent lack of demand is responsible for the major part of the German unemployment problem. … und Lohn-bedingten Arbeitslosigkeit in Frage stellen. Es deutet vielmehr einiges darauf hin, dass die hohe …

Unemployment in Germany strongly increased in 2005. Beside other influences a labor market reform that came into force … in 2005 (Hartz IV reform) was ascribed to redistribute hidden to open unemployment. Using different methodological … approaches and data sets this article analyses the scale of this change from hidden to open unemployment in West Germany. Yet …