At the end of the day, the state needs to mitigate the risk that enterprises might use short-time working benefits as a way of propping up business models that simply don’t have a future. _____________  6 See Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany in the financial and economic crisis, Labour market, Monthly Re-  port, October 2010, pp. 55-69.
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