Radical labour market reforms were implemented in Germany between 2002 and 2005, reforms that overturned the received idea that Germany was suffering from "reform paralysis". However, the part of these reforms that specifically concerned labour law was very small; their main purpose was to...

Ältere zwischen 50 und 60 weisen trotz geringerer Wahrscheinlichkeit, arbeitslos zu werden, diehöchsten Arbeitslosenquoten auf, was eine Folge ihrer erheblich höheren Arbeitslosigkeitsdauernist (vgl. Abbildung 1). Das altersspezifische Risiko besteht also darin, arbeitslos zu bleiben....