Twenty years after the EU accession of the Visegrád countries-- Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary - we analyse their development of unit labour costs and of the labour share in manufacturing for the years 1995 to 2023. Firstly, the labour shares in the Visegrád countries have...

Germany’s new government attempts once again to get rid of the infamous "Hartz IV" name for the country’s basic income support. The new "Bürgergeld" not only sports a new name, it also formulates new rules for sanctions and for considering income and property.