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Germany a job-centred approach
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Despite a dramatic decline in output as a result of the global financial and economic crisis, Germanys labour market held up well compared with other countries. This was the conclusion reached by ...
Despite a dramatic decline in output as a result of the global financial and economic crisis, Germanys labour market held up well compared with other countries. This was the conclusion reached by the first comprehensive assessment of Germanys policy to tackle the crisis, issued by the ILO.
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- English
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- 1st ed
- Geneva : International Labour Organization, International Institute for Labour Studies, 2011
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- x, 104 p. : ill
- ISBNs
- 9789290149637, 9290149639, 9290149620
- OCLC
- ocn757261160
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English
- Intro -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Executive summary and policy recommendations -- Chapter 1: Economic and labour market performance -- Introduction -- A. Macroeconomic developments -- B. Labour market impacts of the crisis -- C. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 2: Germany's policy response to the crisis -- Introduction -- A. Stabilizing financial markets, maintaining liquidity and access to credit -- B. Discretionary spending / fiscal stimulus -- C. Policy lessons and considerations -- References -- Chapter 3: Supporting employment through social dialogue -- Introduction -- A. Promoting employment at the enterprise level: Working-time flexibility -- B. Short-time work as a subsidized reduction in working time -- C. Policy lessons and considerations -- References -- Chapter 4: Social protection: The role of automatic stabilizers -- Introduction -- A. Social protection in Germany -- B. Responding to the crisis -- C. Policy lessons and considerations -- References -- Chapter 5: Post-crisis policy challenges -- Introduction -- A. Job-rich and inclusive growth -- B. Reversing the decline in labour supply -- C. Narrowing the gap between wage and productivity growth -- D. Improved access to credit to support investment -- References -- List of figures -- Figure 1.1 GDP growth, quarterly real GDP rate, 2007-2010 (percentage change from one year earlier) -- Figure 1.2 Real GDP growth by main components, Q1 2008-Q3 2010 (percentage change from one year earlier) -- Figure 1.3 GDP and employment in selected countries, change in 2009 compared to 2008 (percentages) -- Figure 1.4 Unemployment rates by sex and age, Q2 2008-Q3 2010 (seasonally adjusted) -- Figure 1.5 Changes in employment by sector, 2008-2009 (percentages)
- Figure 1.6 Changes in employment by type, from same quarter in previous year, Q2 2008-Q3 2010 (percentage change from one year earlier) -- Figure 1.7 Agency work in Germany, 1992-2009 -- Figure 1.8 Recruitments and terminations, Q1 2007-Q2 2009 (thousands per quarter) -- Table 2.1 Crisis response measures to stabilize the financial system, various countries (up to February 2009) -- Figure 2.1 Comparison between financial and fiscal rescue efforts, selected countries (percentage of GDP) -- Figure 2.2 Monetary response: Reductions in key policy rates, November 2007-July 2009 (percentages) -- Figure 2.3 Germany's fiscal stimulus compared to other G20 economies (percentage of GDP) -- Figure 3.1 Changes in average yearly working time per employee, 2009 (annual average in hours) -- Figure 3.2 Share of employed persons in enterprises with company-level pactsfor employment on all employees, by size of enterprise, 2006, 2008 and 2009 (percentages) -- Figure 3.3 Collective bargaining and its impact on output and employment -- Figure 3.4 Working time flexibility and GDP, Q1 2008-Q1 2010 (percentage change from previous quarter) -- Figure 3.5 Short-time workers, 2007-2010 (number of workers participating) -- Figure 3.6 Short-time worker by size of enterprise, April 2009 (percentages) -- Figure 3.7 Short-time work and training, January 2009-February 2010 (percentage share) -- Figure 4.1 Social spending in Germany, 1992-2009 -- Figure 4.2 Breakdown of Germany's social benefits, 2007 -- Figure 4.3 Composition of Germany's social spending, 2008 -- Figure 4.4 Changes in total social budget in Germany compared to previous year, 2006-09 (percentages) -- Figure 4.5 Change compared to previous year in spending on components of social insurance, 2009 (percentages) -- Figure 4.6 Number of recipients of Unemployment Benefit I and II in Germany, 2008-2010
- Figure 4.7 Spending on other employment benefits in 2009 (change from 2008) -- Figure 4.8 Child and Family benefits spending, 2006-2009 (percentages) -- Figure 5.1 Change in the incidence of long-term unemployment in total unemployment between Q2 2009 and Q2 2010, by age group and sex (percentage points) -- Figure 5.2 Differences in productivity between west and east Germany, 1999-2004 (value added per full-time employee, thousands) -- Figure 5.3 Evolution of the working-age population in Germany, 1999-2009 -- and dependency ratios in selected G-20 countries, 2010 and 2020 projections -- Figure 5.4 Labour force outlook, 2005-2020* -- Figure 5.5 Annual average real wage growth, selected countries, 2000-03, 2003-06 and 2006-09 (percentages) -- Figure 5.6 Real household disposable income, growth rates Q1 2005-Q4 2010 (year-on-year percentage changes) -- Figure 5.7 Labour productivity and real hourly wages, 1996-2009 -- Figure 5.8 Pre-crisis trends in real investment among advanced economies, 1980 and 2006 (percentage of GDP) -- Figure 5.9 Lending rates in Germany compared to other European economies, 1998-2008 (percentages) -- List of Tables -- Table 1.1 Average working hours per salaried worker, various sectors, 2007-2009 -- Table 2.1 Crisis response measures to stabilize the financial system, various countries (up to February 2009) -- Table 2.2 Requirements for the use of cyclical short-time work, and recent changes -- Table 3.1 Cyclical component of labour productivity per person by industry in Germany, Q1 2008-Q2 2010 -- Table 3.2 Establishments with short-time work in the first six months of 2009, by subgroup -- List of boxes -- Box 1.1 Development of agency work in Germany -- Box 3.1 Enterprise-level agreements in support of employment and output -- Box 5.1 P olicy measures to support investment and business growth