The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later reversed. As the migration pattern chosen by market forces...

The first shall be last -- How German workers lost their competitive edge -- Trade-union capitalism -- Competing against the welfare state -- The withering East -- Taxes and transfers : the endless loop -- The birth dearth -- EU enlargement, migration, and the new EU constitution -- Rethinking...

In der 7. Aufl. werden die aktuellsten politischen Beschlüsse zur deutschen Sozialreform argumentativ und rechnerisch berücksichtigt. Allerdings gibt es schon wieder neue, wie z.B. zur Gestaltung der Hinzuverdienstmöglichkeiten bei Hartz IV.