There has been a long discussion about the employment impact of minimum wages and this discussion has recently been renewed with the introduction of an economy-wide, binding minimum wage in Germany in 2015. In traditional reasoning, based on the allocational approach of modern labour market...

Fiskalregeln im Allgemeinen und der Stabilitäts- und Wachstumspakt im Speziellen werden wiederholt ins Feld geführt, um Staatsverschuldung effektiv zu begrenzen und fiskalische Nachhaltigkeit zu erzeugen. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit verdient hierbei das Konzept der unbeobachtbaren Output-Lücke.

This paper attempts to shed some light on the developments of welfare states in highly developed nations since WW2 within the context of a narrative which seeks to combine institutional distinctions, termed 'varieties of capitalism', with the historical regimes of regulation theory in a...