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Can Germany be saved? : the malaise of the world's first welfare state /

Sinn, Hans-Werner.

Can Germany be saved? : the malaise of the world's first welfare state / Hans-Werner Sinn. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007. - xvi, 338 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

"Contains extensive updates and added material"--Per publisher on electronic galley. English edition of: Ist Deutschland noch zu retten?

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-334) and index.

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.

Translated from the German.

ISBN: 9780262195584 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262195585 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2007000556

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA722106 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013699026 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Labor laws and legislation--Germany.
Labor market--Germany.
Foreign trade and employment--Germany.
Competition, Unfair--Germany.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Germany--Economic conditions--1990-

LC Class. No.: HC286.8 / .S56213 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 330.943