This paper discusses the reasons for the dismal labor market performance of Germany over the last three decades along with potential remedies. It argues that labor market rigidities along with a generous welfare state in conjunction with certain changes in the economic environment are important...

During the next decades the populations of most developed countries will grow older as a result of the low level of birth rates since the 1970s and/or the continuously increasing life expectancy. We show within a Generational Accounting framework how unsustainable the public finances of France,...

The German Income Tax Reform 2000, which announced a reduction in income tax rates to be implemented in a series of three stages, was welcomed by the public as a step towards unleashing lurking growth potentials. Nonetheless, in the course of the year 2001 a dispute arose, centering around the...

Main description: Globalisierung beschreibt einen weltweiten Prozeß sinkender Kosten der Überwindung von Raum und Zeit. Sie ist ein weltweites Programm der Mehrung von Exit-Optionen für die Privaten. Ihnen bieten sich zunehmende Möglichkeiten des physischen oder funktionalen Verlassens einer...