The case for a job guarantee policy in Germany: A political-economic analysis of the potential benefits and obstacles
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Keywords
Job Guarantee; Employer-of-Last-Resort; Public Works; Unemployment; Underemployment; Full Employment; Inflation; Fiscal Policy; Debt Brake;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
- H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
- J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2020-11-16 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2020-11-16 (Macroeconomics)
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