1st Amerang Dispute 2001: Unemployment in Germany

Economic Growth – A Driving Force for Full Employment?
Unemployment is not a direct consequence of too little economic growth. Rather, it is a consequence of deeply-rooted individual and collective views and behaviours. They obstruct peoples’ adaptation to a constantly changing reality and thereby impede the creation of new jobs. As long as large parts of the population, of politicians and of the trade unions cling to the mental framework of the industrial age, an increase in job offers is hardly likely. Solutions offered by the Amerang Dispute in 2001, which were based on extensive academic research conducted by the IWG in Bonn, forestalled the key elements of the Hartz reforms: loosening up the labour market, improving the framework for entrepreneurial activity, revaluating customized services, developing a low-wage labour market and an overdue reform of social welfare services.

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