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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814845603321

Autore

Sinn Hans-Werner

Titolo

Can Germany be saved? [[electronic resource] ] : the malaise of the world's first welfare state / / Hans-Werner Sinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-09858-6

9786612098581

0-262-28370-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Disciplina

330.943

Soggetti

Competition, Unfair - Germany

Foreign trade and employment - Germany

Labor laws and legislation - Germany

Labor market - Germany

Germany Economic conditions 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Contains extensive updates and added material"--Per publisher on electronic galley.

Translated from the German.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 the welfare state : a reform program.