Busch, Georg M. - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 62 (1989) 6, pp. 394-398
Social expenditures rose by about 4 percent in 1988, as a percent of GDP they declined for the first time in four years. The faster pace of employment growth checked the rise in unemployment benefit outlays, old age insurance expenditures were damped by discretionary measures of consolidation....