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Fixing America's Economy: Nine Ideas from Around the World
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Kurzarbeit and other programs in Germany that reduce unemployment with government subsidizing shorter work weeks.
01/04/2008
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The Price of Saving Jobs in Germany
BusinessWeek 07/29/2010
Economist 10/01/2009
German Workers' Wages Belie Country's Rebound
Wall Street Journal 08/17/2010
BusinessWeek 02/02/2011
Germany's economy: Angela in Wunderland
Economist 02/05/2011
Fixing America's Economy: Nine Ideas from Around the World
BusinessWeek 06/08/2011
Germany's "kurzarbeit" and government-business cooperation to tackle cyclical swings in the economy
07/29/2010
About half a million jobs were saved by one estimate through the German government sharing the costs of labor retention with industry during the last downturn. The program is known as "kurzarbeit" in Germany and is accepted by the German public, workers and business as a better way to handle the cyclical swings in the economy. The lack of a similiar program in the U.S. means a larger loss of jobs in the U.S., which is being painfully felt in 2011-2012. U.S. programs focussed on a stimulus measure and government spending, not on a program of joint cooperation between industry and government such as "kurzarbeit." There is no history of such cooperation in the U.S. and the government is seen more in the sense of intervention than cooperation with industry.
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The Price of Saving Jobs in Germany
BusinessWeek 07/29/2010
Where Germany, U.S. differ: How much should government steer the economy? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 06/08/2011
Fixing America's Economy: Nine Ideas from Around the World
BusinessWeek 06/08/2011
Growth in Euro Zone Stalls, Slowing Debt Crisis Solution
New York Times 08/16/2011
Germany reaps rewards of entitlement cuts - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/20/2011
Wall Street Journal 11/21/2011
Germany's Kurzarbeit plan and other methods of softening the impact of a recession on jobs and wages.
10/28/2006
About 1.5 million employees used the Kurzarbeit short work week schedules according to the German labor agency. In the latest month March 2010, 693,000 workers were on the Kurzarbeit short week schedule.
Grouped Articles
The Price of Saving Jobs in Germany
BusinessWeek 07/29/2010
Germany's economy: Angela in Wunderland
Economist 02/05/2011
Fixing America's Economy: Nine Ideas from Around the World
BusinessWeek 06/08/2011
Wall Street Journal 11/21/2011
The Age of the Superfluous Worker
New York Times 11/24/2011
Bayer: Pressure on Prices Has Bad Side Effects
Wall Street Journal 02/07/2012
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