however countries facing especially large government budget deficits or where an already high unemployment rate is projected to remain stable or decline are more likely to envisage beginning to trim back some of the increases in spending that were taken in response to the crisis many of the crisis measures are scheduled to expire often at the end of or early in this is particularly common for expansions of unemployment benefit coverage or benefit generosity and measures to stimulate labour demand including expansions of shorttime work stw schemes public employment service pes staffing has increased significantly in a number of countries with japan increasing it by over onethird