The current low participation rate of low-skilled workers in vocational re-training ac-tivities as well as the relatively high share of youth without vocational qualification are major challenges for German labour market policies. Recently implemented pro-grams by the Federal Employment Service...

"The current low participation rate of low-skilled workers in vocational re-training activities as well as the relatively high share of youth without vocational qualification are major challenges for German labour market policies. Recently implemented programs by the Federal Employment Service...

"The current low participation rate of low-skilled workers in vocational re-training activities as well as the relatively high share of youth without vocational qualification are major challenges for German labour market policies. Recently implemented programs by the Federal Employment Service...

Women and men increasingly face work-related critical events during their lifecourse and experience risks that are not fully covered by unemployment insurance or other work related insurances. Social risk management of transitional labour markets (TLMs) aims at supporting people in navigating...

In this paper, distinguishing between the choice of the worker and the choice of the firm, we provide a probabilistic evaluation of the transition from temporary to permanent employment in a regional context. Estimating a Multinomial Nested Logit Model, we found that the transition to a...

The emergence of a transitional labor market offers new opportunities to workers, but at the same time bears the risk of (new) inequalities. This paper deals with unequal chances on the transitional labor market in the Netherlands, in particular for workers from the four largest immigrant...

"This paper focuses on the 'flexicurity' concept, which links flexibility on the labour market with social security. It is applied here to the institutional basic conditions of the Federal Republic of Germany and is discussed as an alternative to solely increasing flexibility. The central...

"This paper focuses on the 'flexicurity' concept, which links flexibility on the labour market with social security. It is applied here to the institutional basic conditions of the Federal Republic of Germany and is discussed as an alternative to solely increasing flexibility. The central...

When labor market economists started to work on segmented labor markets, they classified informal employment as a transitory state. At the end of the 20th century, informal employment still persists governments' attempts to eradicate it and represents a growing labor market segment not only in...

The paper lists all the transition periods negotiated by the 10 acceding countries in the final stage of accession negotiations with the European Union at the end of 2002. These transition periods are derogations to EU law and are limited in duration. They have been accorded to the future Member...

Gliederung: I. Einleitung: Arbeitsmarktübergänge als wissenschaftliches und theoretisches Problemfeld. - II. Arbeitsmarktübergänge, Wohlfahrtsstaat, Übergangsarbeitsmärkte und Beschäftigungssysteme. - III. Indikatoren zur Erfassung von Übergangsdynamiken (1. Stromindikatoren. - 2. Die...