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Germany's Labour Market Miracle

Geoff Riley

27th August 2015

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Germany’s unemployment rate almost halved between 2005 and 2010 in part because of the upturn in the business cycle but largely because the country’s employment agencies became much more effective at getting jobseekers into work. That is the main finding of research by Moritz Kuhn and colleagues, to be presented at the annual congress of the European Economic Association in Mannheim in August 2015.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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