Hans-Peter Klös / Holger Schäfer IW-Report No. 19 6. May 2020 IW Labour Market Monitoring April 2020
As expected, firms react to the sudden drop in their demand for labour with a chain of different policies. The statistics show a severe decrease in hirings.
Hans-Peter Klös / Holger Schäfer German Economic Institute (IW)
As expected, firms react to the sudden drop in their demand for labour with a chain of different policies. The statistics show a severe decrease in hirings.
Therefore, people outside the labour market have a difficult time finding new jobs. In addition, short time work is used widespread as an instrument of internal numerical flexibility. The number of short time workers will be much higher than in the 2009 crisis. While the number of layoffs increases, it remains on a low level compared to short time work or layoffs in other countries. As a result, unemployment is rising somewhat moderately.
To alleviate the labour market effects of the current crisis, the legislator has introduced various de-regulations in the working time law. This could be a social experiment that encompasses the opportunity to gain more insights into the controversial working time debate by means of thorough evaluation.
Matthias Diermeier/ Jan Felix Engler / Holger Schäfer IW-Trends No. 1 23. May 2023
Too Much or Too Little Reform?: Public Discussion of the Revised Unemployment Benefit
Under its new name, Citizens' Benefit (Bürgergeld), Germany’s reformed unemployment benefit was supposed to put basic benefits for job-seekers on a new footing and fulfil the political promise to "overcome" its controversial predecessor known, after its ...
Matthias Diermeier/ Jan Felix Engler / Holger Schäfer IW
Christian Kestermann / Hagen Lesch / Oliver Stettes IW-Trends No. 4 29. December 2022
Works Council Elections 2022: Results of the IW Works Council Election Survey
Works councils receive strong backing from the workforces they represent. Nevertheless, the drop in turnout reported in the IW Works Council Election Survey 2022 suggests that this support is declining.
Christian Kestermann / Hagen Lesch / Oliver Stettes IW
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