All articles in: Labour Market, Employment and Social Policy

7. July 2017 |

New book publication: Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe

Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of working age. Frontline workers ...read more

30. June 2017 |

The German job miracle: an interview with IAB Director Joachim Möller

From “the sick man of Europe” to the “German job miracle”: the German labour market has been performing extraordinarily well since 2005. Even in the crisis year 2009, when ...read more

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Germany’s labour market was in such a poor state that the country was described as ’the sick man of Europe’. Since 2005, the German labour market has been ...read more