Can Germany be saved?
Subtitle: the malaise of the world's first welfare state
By: by Hans-Werner Sinn.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780262195584
Subjects: Labor laws and legislation -- Germany; Labor market -- Germany; Foreign trade and employment -- Germany; Competition, Unfair -- Germany; Germany -- Economic conditions -- 1990-
Work titles: Ist Deutschland noch zu retten?
Notes: "Contains extensive updates and added material"--Per publisher on electronic galley.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The first shall be last; title: How German workers lost their competitive edge; title: Trade-union capitalism; title: Reinventing the German welfare state; title: The withering East; title: Taxes and transfers : the endless loop; title: The birth dearth; title: EU enlargement, migration and the new EU constitution.