Der Glanz ist verflogen im Wirtschaftswunderland. Die Löhne steigen nicht mehr, die Renten verschlechtern sich von Jahr zu Jahr, die Armut wächst kontinuierlich an und macht auch nicht mehr vor dem arbeitenden Teil der Bevölkerung Halt. Das Wirtschaftswachstum hat sich merklich abgeschwächt...

Is the Czech Republic a welfare state? This question is to be answered through this article, whose purpose is to classify Czechia into one of the types of the welfare state. The introduction of the article describes the creation of the welfare state and the main factors influencing its origin....

This article presents an analytical overview and defines the essence of the concept “social policy” in the context of its relation to the economy. The author of the article has developed a system of indicators to measure the impact of social policy and proposed a technique for assessing its...

The aim of this study was provide answers to two research questions. While the first one is concerned with the causes of the remarkable macroeconomic resilience of the Nordic EU-countries since the mid-1990s, the second one is related to the sustainability of a high degree of government activity...