1. What We Can Still Learn from Germany and Denmark
(Matching tags: economy, unemployment, workers, work sharing, Germany, Great Recession)

... Some lessons from Denmark and Germany.” Schmitt looked at the labor-market experience of 21 rich countries with a focus on Denmark and Germany.  The graph below represents the change in unemployment ...

2. Borderline
(Matching tags: france, labor market, Germany)

Yesterday’s New York Times has a high-production-values piece on differences in the recent labor-market performance of France and Germany. Reporter Steven Erlanger, whose foreign reporting ...