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Employment has held up strongly in Germany--despite a recession that was worse than ours--thanks to policies meant to keep people employed. One program subsidizes "mini jobs" amounting to 10 to 15 hours per week for students or older workers. Another rewards companies that hire the long-term jobless. Germany is also more aggressive about finding work for the unemployed instead of merely mailing out unemployment checks.
