The Political Economy of Unemployment: Active Labor Market Policy in West Germany and the United States. (book reviews)

In the years since World War II, the governments of West Germany and the United States have both actively intervened in labor markets. But public policies toward job creation, worker training, and placement have different sharply in the two countries. In this book, Thomas Janosky attempts to account for some of those differences, and to make a case for moving American active labor market policy in the direction of the West German model.

Janosky identifies four forces that have shaped the development of labor market policies in the two countries: "social demands, state ...

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