Active labor market policy in Germany: is there a successful policy strategy?

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two decades, ra...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Fertig, Michael (Author) , Schmidt, Christoph M. (Author) , Schneider, Hilmar (Author)
Format:	Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	Bonn IZA September 2002
Series:	Discussion paper series / Institute for the Study of Labor IZA DP no. 576
In:	Discussion paper series (IZA DP no. 576)
Subjects:	Arbeitspapier Graue Literatur
Online Access:	Resolving-System, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21352
Author Notes:	Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt, Hilmar Schneider