Labor and an integrated Europe /

A recent Wall Street Journal article reported that jobs are leaving Germany and moving to Poland as employers seek lower wages. Some of the cost differences lie in social and labor policies, including regulation, designed to fight poverty in Western Europe. Given these recent developments, the consolidation of the European Community (EC), and the Maastricht treaty, this volume provides a useful and timely treatise on a number of issues as Western Europe looks to Eastern Europe in the context of emerging relationships. Editors Ulman, Eichengreen, and Dickens are economists at the University of California, Berkeley; the other 11 contributors are labor economists and social scientists from the US, France, and Germany. Chapters provide a comprehensive analysis and include topics such as labor in an integrated Europe, unions, worker participation, neocorporatism, labor market institutions, employee benefits, wage equalization, monetary unification, regional unemployment, immigration policies, the EC and US wages, and East-West integration. Excellent array of statistical tables and graphs; chapter-end references. In addition to the comprehensive analysis, this work is useful as a reference source. A good addition to undergraduate and graduate collections. F. W. Musgrave Ithaca College