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In the early eighties the Netherlands experienced a severe economic crisis with a pronounced rise of the unemployment rate. Not even two decades later the Dutch economy has recovered from the ‘Dutch Disease’ and has to show a booming labour market...

The analysis is about the compulsory German unemployment insurance system (GUIS). It is known that GUIS has done nothing to prevent the continuous rise of the rate of unemployment since the 1970s.

GlobLabWS aimed to explore the role of the welfare state in shaping the relationship between globalisation and labour markets and in affecting a country’s economic performance and ability to respond to exogenous shocks.

According to the principle of "promoting and demanding", Hartz IV should help unemployed people to live without transfers as quickly as possible.