Through the provision of information and comparative research on employment policies and labour market trends the European Employment Policy Observatory contributes to the European Employment Strategy.

Economix is member of the SYSDEM Network. The following reports were developed as contributions to the network. They are published as discussion papers:

Publications

• Skills governance in Germany, Employment Policy Observatory Review, (2015)
• Personal and household services. Germany. Ad-hoc request, European Employment Policy Observatory; internal document
• Upskilling unemployed adults. The organisation, profiling and targeting of training provision. Germany, European Employment Policy Observatory Review (2015)
• Stimulating Job Demand: The Design of Effective Hiring Subsidies in Europe - Germany, European Employment Policy Observatory Review, 2014
• Start-up Incentives. Germany, European Employment Policy Observatory Review, 2014
• Promoting green jobs throughout the crisis, Germany, European Employment Policy Observatory Review, 2013
• Geographical labour mobility in the context of the crisis update 2012, 2013

• Collective wage agreement and minimum wage, February 2013
• Long-term unemployment in Germany , July 2012
• Employment policies to promote active ageing, February 2012
• EEO Review: Youth measures, October 2010
• EEO Review: Self-employment, June 2010
• NAIRU and Okun's law - Macro-economy in a nutshell, 2010
• The employment dimension of economic greening, December 2009
• Parental allowance (Elterngeld) - An innovative policy, July 2009
• Crisis management for European labour markets, May 2009
• Indirect measurement methods for undeclared work in Germany, April 2009
• Undeclared work in Germany - Mapping of administrative sources, April 2009
• Self-employment prorammes, June 2008
• Lifelong learning, November 2007
• Germany and the European Employment Strategy, June 2007
• Undeclared work, May 2007
• Flexicurity in Germany, November 2006
• Transfer-Companies: A Major Labour Market Restructuring Instrument, June 2006
• Youth employment policies, December 2005
• German Self-Employment Programmes for the Unemployed, June 2005

Quarterly reports

• The flexible German labour market, I/2011
• Growth incentives from human capital protection, IV/2010
• Successful restructuring, III/2010
• Economic recovery and budget consolidation, II/2010
• Robust German labour market, I/2010
• The new conservative-liberal Federal Government, III+IV/2009
• Tackling the crisis with short-time work, I+II/2009
• Germany in recession, VI/2008
• Fighting the crisis,III/2008
• Recession started, II/2008
• Declining income mobility, I/2008
• Reduction of non-wage labour costs and skills promotion, IV/2007
• The end of labour market reforms?, III/2007
• Upswing on the German labour market, II/2007
• The end of the labour market upswing?, I/2007
• Positive employment effects of restructuring and low wages, IV/2006
• Labour market improvements in a stagnating policy environment, III/2006
• A divided labour market, II/2006
• The ambivalent life with labour market reforms, I/2006
• New government continues labour market reforms, II/2006
• First experience with Hartz reform, III/2005
• The New Flexibility of Collective BargainingII, 2005
• Job Summit Promoting the Hartz Reforms, I/2005