Einführung -- Gemeinsamer Markt.- Politische Institutionen der EU -- Europäisches System der Zentralbanken (ESZB) -- Europäische Kohäsionspolitik -- Agrarpolitik -- Koordination der Finanzpolitik - Stabilitäts- und Wachstumspaket -- Europäische Beschäftigungspolitik und die Offene Methode...

Einführung -- Theoretische Grundlagen -- Politische Institutionen der Europäischen Union -- Europäisches System der Zentralbanken (ESZB) -- Europäische Kohäsionspolitik -- Agrarpolitik -- Koordination der Finanzpolitik — Stabilitäts- und Wachstumspakt -- Europäische...

This book addresses the EU as powerful driver of the wave of privatizations in the network industries and public services since the early 1990s. Based on theoretical arguments and empirical studies it examines the impact of these policies on what is regarded as the normative pillars of the...

The Economics of Monetary Union: the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas (OCAs) -- The Economic Rationale of Fiscal Rules in OCAs: The SGP and the EDP -- To Cope with Asymmetric Shocks in EMU: The Role of Labour Market Flexibility -- The Concept of Labour Market Flexicurity in the Eurozone -- The...

Einführung -- Sozialausgaben -- Konzeptionen sozialer Sicherung: Versicherungsund Steuer-Transfer-System -- Über die Notwendigkeit und Voraussetzungen einer koordinierten staatlichen Verteilungspolitik -- Zielvorstellungen in der Diskussion über die Alterssicherung — Eine Skizze — --...

The Ageing Population -- In This World Nothing Is Certain but Death and Taxes: Financing the Elderly -- A Stable Pension System: The Eighth Wonder -- Ways of Funding and Organising Elderly Care in Sweden -- Financing Healthcare: A Gordian Knot Waiting to Be Cut -- Towards a New Swedish Model?

This book provides an up-to-date summary of the consequences of demographic aging for labor markets, financial markets, economic growth, social security schemes and public finances in Germany, essentially reflecting the present state of knowledge in any of these areas. Compared to other...

L. Leisering: Introduction -- H. F. Zacher: Social Policy in the FRG - The Constitution of the Social: The "Social" as the Guiding Concept of Politics and Law -- Social Policy and the Social Post-War Germany: a Political and Legal History -- The FRG - a Difficult, Fractured, and Open Nation...

By 2020, 40 percent of the workforce won’t want to be your employee. That means managers and executives have to forget the old recruit-and-search for-months methods to acquire talent and revise their perception that “talent” is only full-time employees. The good news is that this talent...

Services from information technology to research to finance are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...