The exceptionally strong German GDP figures for 2010 Q2 have triggered a lot of commentary on whether Germany has coped better with the recent recession than other countries, especially the US. (See for example this blog and also this one by Paul Krugman, and this analysis in the FT on Monday by Wolfgang Münchau.) But much of this discussion has focused only on the performance of GDP, exports or consumption, where little seems to have changed, and has largely over-looked the performance of the labour market, which has actually been rather remarkable. In the 1950s and 1960s, everyone talked about the German economic miracle. We certainly have not seen that repeated in the last few years, but we have seen a complete overhaul in labour market policy which is now bearing fruit, and which deserves to be more widely recognised.
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