A term specifically found in European politics, social concertation refers to cooperation between trade unions, governments and employers in public policy-making. Social Concertation in Times of Austerity investigates the political underpinnings of social concertation in the context of European...

Main description: Der vorliegende Band vereint ausgewählte wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Publikationen von Wolfgang Schmitz aus vier Jahrzehnten. -- Motiviert wurden die wirtschaftsethischen Arbeiten insbesondere durch seine schon früh einsetzende wirtschaftspolitische Tätigkeit. 1950 trat er...

"Hardly noticed in Western Europe the fall of the Iron Curtain had also effects on the regional structures of the labour markets in the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). I analyse whether during the undoubtedly increasing integration of markets the Czech border region close to the...