Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to theoretically and empirically investigate the relative effects of wage subsidies and further vocational training on employment prospects. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts a theoretical approach that discusses the effects of two major...

Labour market and occupational orientation are core topics of economic education. The separation of men's professions and women's professions - the so-called gender-specific segregation - is one of the most enduring socio-structural characteristics of the labour market. Although an increasing...

Because their departures are difficultly observed, little is known about the performance of immigrants who leave their adoptive homeland.This paper shows conditions under which the (conditional) outmigration probability, work probability and the expected earnings of outmigrants are...

The aim of this paper is to compare some of the significant institutional differences between the British and German economic models. This paper builds on a methodological framework developed by institutional economics. Comparative research carried out in this paper focuses on three...

It is not clear, whether changes in self-employment are primarily driven by the necessity to take part in the labour market, or if those activities reflect new modes of labour market integration revealing new opportunities and markets, which are especially due in wide parts to the service and...

This article uses household-level survey data on income and employment to compare labour market dynamics across a range of advanced economies, including Australia. The analysis focuses on how changes in employment status are distributed within countries and how those distributional patterns vary...

The article tries to answer an old question of economic theory and institutional economics: How do trade unions fit into a market economy? Are they a constitutive element of the market order or: are they a source of irritation and disruption?

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, comparison of the labour market impact of public expenditure for defence in Canada, France, Germany, Federal Republic, Norway, Sweden, UK and USA - examines the econometric models used to assess potential employment creation or unemployment in the construction...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a questionnaire survey of households of Yugoslav migrant workers in Germany, Federal Republic - examines the impact of emigration on the labour market in Yugoslavia and in host country, and covers occupational structure, skill and educational level,...