For a number of European countries the presence of a more or less large number of foreign workers and their families is a fact to which they will have to adjust. As a rule, the longer the length of their stay, the less probable it becomes that these workers will return to their country of...

The position taken by politicians and important pressure groups in Germany concerning EMU will depend to a large extent on its labour market implications - and thus on the (perceived) impact of exchange rate variability on employment and unemployment. Most economists would assume this impact to...

In his article on "Germany's Stake in Exchange Rate Stability" (INTERECONOMICS, September/October 1996), Daniel Gros recently wrote that, as he sees it, the exchange rate volatility of the D-Mark against the other European currencies has a causal impact on the German unemployment rate. In the...

Internationality is in the Federal Republic of Germany no mere slogan. A country whose industry and commerce is so closely interlinked with the economies of other countries needs international cooperation, and that not only within the restricted circle of its EEC partners, but also in the wider...

Not least due to the change in overall economic conditions, the employment of foreign workers in Western Europe has in recent years become increasingly controversial. The following two articles deal with different aspects of labour migration. Heinz Werner presents a survey of policies towards...