Labor market policy

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Press release February 6, 2019

Still good labor market development leads to further decline in shadow economy in 2019 (in German).

In 2019, the size of the shadow economy in Germany will decrease by around EUR 5 billion. The ratio of the shadow economy to official GDP will thus fall to just over 9 percent. The main reason for this is the continuing good labor market situation, which so far has not been affected by the weaker growth outlook. In addition, lower taxes for the small self-employed make it more worthwhile to register a business.



Publications

Bernhard Boockmann, René Kalweit, Günther Klee, Matthias Lücke, Tobias Scheu, Khira Sippli, Tobias Stöhr Forschungsbericht 539 des BMAS, Januar 2020


Bernhard Boockmann, Tobias Brändle

Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed out of Benefit Receipt and back into the Labor Market?
In: German Econ Rev, 20: e436-e468. Decemeber 7, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1111/geer.12174


Lukas Fervers

Healing or Deepening the Scars of Unemployment? The Impact of Activation Policies on Unemployed Workers
In: Work, Employment and Society, 1-18, 2019 (online advance access: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0950017019882904)