Germany [electronic resource] : a job-centred approach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Labour Office, Corporate Author.

Series:

Studies on growth with equity.

Studies on growth with equity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--Germany.

Labor.

Labor policy--Germany.

Labor policy.

Industrial relations--Germany.

Industrial relations.

Labor laws and legislation, International.

Labor market--Germany.

Labor market.

Germany--Social policy.

Germany.

Physical Description:

x, 104 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Geneva : International Labour Organization, International Institute for Labour Studies, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite a dramatic decline in output as a result of the global financial and economic crisis, Germany’s labour market held up well compared with other countries. This was the conclusion reached by the first comprehensive assessment of Germany’s policy to tackle the crisis, issued by the ILO.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations

Executive summary and policy recommendations

Chapter 1: Economic and labour market performance

Introduction

A. Macroeconomic developments

B. Labour market impacts of the crisis

C. Concluding remarks

References

Chapter 2: Germany's policy response to the crisis

A. Stabilizing financial markets, maintaining liquidity and access to credit

B. Discretionary spending / fiscal stimulus

C. Policy lessons and considerations

Chapter 3: Supporting employment through social dialogue

A. Promoting employment at the enterprise level: Working-time flexibility

B. Short-time work as a subsidized reduction in working time

Chapter 4: Social protection: The role of automatic stabilizers

A. Social protection in Germany

B. Responding to the crisis

Chapter 5: Post-crisis policy challenges

A. Job-rich and inclusive growth

B. Reversing the decline in labour supply

C. Narrowing the gap between wage and productivity growth

D. Improved access to credit to support investment

List of figures

Figure 1.1 GDP growth, quarterly real GDP rate, 2007-2010 (percentage change from one year earlier)

Figure 1.2 Real GDP growth by main components, Q1 2008-Q3 2010 (percentage change from one year earlier)

Figure 1.3 GDP and employment in selected countries, change in 2009 compared to 2008 (percentages)

Figure 1.4 Unemployment rates by sex and age, Q2 2008-Q3 2010 (seasonally adjusted)

Figure 1.5 Changes in employment by sector, 2008-2009 (percentages).

Figure 1.6 Changes in employment by type, from same quarter in previous year, Q2 2008-Q3 2010 (percentage change from one year earlier)

Figure 1.7 Agency work in Germany, 1992-2009

Figure 1.8 Recruitments and terminations, Q1 2007-Q2 2009 (thousands per quarter)

Table 2.1 Crisis response measures to stabilize the financial system, various countries (up to February 2009)

Figure 2.1 Comparison between financial and fiscal rescue efforts, selected countries (percentage of GDP)

Figure 2.2 Monetary response: Reductions in key policy rates, November 2007-July 2009 (percentages)

Figure 2.3 Germany's fiscal stimulus compared to other G20 economies (percentage of GDP)

Figure 3.1 Changes in average yearly working time per employee, 2009 (annual average in hours)

Figure 3.2 Share of employed persons in enterprises with company-level pactsfor employment on all employees, by size of enterprise, 2006, 2008 and 2009 (percentages)

Figure 3.3 Collective bargaining and its impact on output and employment

Figure 3.4 Working time flexibility and GDP, Q1 2008-Q1 2010 (percentage change from previous quarter)

Figure 3.5 Short-time workers, 2007-2010 (number of workers participating)

Figure 3.6 Short-time worker by size of enterprise, April 2009 (percentages)

Figure 3.7 Short-time work and training, January 2009-February 2010 (percentage share)

Figure 4.1 Social spending in Germany, 1992-2009

Figure 4.2 Breakdown of Germany's social benefits, 2007

Figure 4.3 Composition of Germany's social spending, 2008

Figure 4.4 Changes in total social budget in Germany compared to previous year, 2006-09 (percentages)

Figure 4.5 Change compared to previous year in spending on components of social insurance, 2009 (percentages)

Figure 4.6 Number of recipients of Unemployment Benefit I and II in Germany, 2008-2010.

Figure 4.7 Spending on other employment benefits in 2009 (change from 2008)

Figure 4.8 Child and Family benefits spending, 2006-2009 (percentages)

Figure 5.1 Change in the incidence of long-term unemployment in total unemployment between Q2 2009 and Q2 2010, by age group and sex (percentage points)

Figure 5.2 Differences in productivity between west and east Germany, 1999-2004 (value added per full-time employee, thousands)

Figure 5.3 Evolution of the working-age population in Germany, 1999-2009

and dependency ratios in selected G-20 countries, 2010 and 2020 projections

Figure 5.4 Labour force outlook, 2005-2020*

Figure 5.5 Annual average real wage growth, selected countries, 2000-03, 2003-06 and 2006-09 (percentages)

Figure 5.6 Real household disposable income, growth rates Q1 2005-Q4 2010 (year-on-year percentage changes)

Figure 5.7 Labour productivity and real hourly wages, 1996-2009

Figure 5.8 Pre-crisis trends in real investment among advanced economies, 1980 and 2006 (percentage of GDP)

Figure 5.9 Lending rates in Germany compared to other European economies, 1998-2008 (percentages)

List of Tables

Table 1.1 Average working hours per salaried worker, various sectors, 2007-2009

Table 2.2 Requirements for the use of cyclical short-time work, and recent changes

Table 3.1 Cyclical component of labour productivity per person by industry in Germany, Q1 2008-Q2 2010

Table 3.2 Establishments with short-time work in the first six months of 2009, by subgroup

List of boxes

Box 1.1 Development of agency work in Germany

Box 3.1 Enterprise-level agreements in support of employment and output

Box 5.1 P olicy measures to support investment and business growth.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

92-9014-963-9

OCLC:

757261160