The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to … structure – but also in a series of labor market reforms initiated between 2002 and 2005 altering, inter alia, labor supply … challenges the German labor market will soon have to face. Female labor supply still lies well below that of other countries and …

The promotion of self-employment as part of active labor market policies is considered to be one of the most important … unemployment support schemes in Germany. Against this background the main part of this thesis contributes to the evaluation of …

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for …