With the extension of its competence for social policy legislation in the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties, the EU has adopted a significantly new social dimension in the past ten years. According to the Copenhagen criteria, the CEEC candidate countries have to adopt the former via the acquis...

Zuwanderung aus Ländern von außerhalb Europas oder außerhalb der Europäischen Union steht vielfach auf der politischen Tagesordnung: entweder, um (qualifizierte) Arbeitskräfte anzuwerben oder aber angesichts eines nicht erwünschten Zustroms von Migranten. Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst...

The savings measures of private households currently exceed the limited financing needs of companies around the world, and the difference is reflected in an increase in sovereign debt. In the EU, over the last two and a half decades non-financial corporations recorded funding surpluses in one...

Social security revenues are influenced by business cycle movements. In order to support the working of automatic stabilizers it would be necessary to calculate social insurance contribution rates independently from the state of the business cycle. This paper investigates whether European...