Explaining Different Approaches to Local Labour Market Policy in the FRG

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The article deals with a central problem of labour market policy in the then Federal Republic of Germany (and in other countries): how to bring different policy levels with their special programmes and the many local actors together to develop programmes against unemployment appropriate to their locality. While facing the financial dilemma of falling tax receipts and rising expenditures due to economic crisis and restructuring and while central government prefers non-decisions, local authorities are obliged to make use of the ‘resources of coordination’ such as financial resources and programmes, for example different policies and their associated implementation measures, and of local actors. Using the examples of Bremen, Hanover, Dortmund and Munich the article shows which factors and political processes determine the particular local policies to combat unemployment. The article was written in Spring 1991.

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