The workshop discusses recent research that evaluates passive and active labour market policies.

This conference will focus on policy-oriented theoretical and empirical research which is meant to contribute to this debate, based on a careful analysis of existing constraints and relevant goals. Papers dealing with one or more of the following issues are particularly welcome. - Welfare state...

Schwerpunkt des Workshops ist die Analyse der Wirkungen der Arbeitsmarktreformen im Rahmen der Hartz-Gesetze und der Agenda 2010 einerseits und die Diskussion des trotz oder wegen dieser Gesetze verbleibenden Handlungsbedarfs andererseits. Beiträge zu gesamtwirtschaftlichen Reformwirkungen sind...

The workshop presents international current research on the use of market mechanisms in active labor market policy. The scientific committee encourages in particular contributions on vouchers for active labor market programs, on contracting-out of employment services, but also on performance...

Das politische Schlagwort Fachkräftemangel ist in den letzten Monaten zunehmend in der Öffentlichkeit diskutiert worden. Das Thema ist von hoher Relevanz, da ein Fachkräftemangel das Wachstum einer Wirtschaft schwächen kann. Gerade in den ostdeutschen Bundesländern wird ein Brain–Drain...

Topics of the workshop will include the relationship between institutions and employee performance, determinants of work morale and the psychological foundations of incentives. Papers with various approaches and methodologies are welcome: theoretical contributions as well as empirical research...

In der wirtschaftspolitischen Debatte um die geeignete Arbeitsmarktpolitik werden immer wieder die Erfahrungen anderer europäischer Länder angeführt, wie z. B. das dänische Flexicurity-Modell oder die britischen Erfahrungen mit Mindestlöhnen. Sind solche Lösungen auf Deutschland...

The conference will be part of the 5th BMBF-Forum for Sustainability held in Berlin in September 2008 and will provide time and space for an exchange of ideas between actors from politics, science, and industry and services. The main issues of erscp2008 are: I Sustainable Housing and...

The core of the Conference discusses various dimensions of Demographic Change and Sustainable Development in Europe from different perspectives, country-specific experiences and theoretical as well as empirical approaches. This hopes to contribute in pushing the frontier of knowledge and to...

The international colloquium shall bring together top experts on sustainable growth and sustainable resource management. It aims at analysing the contribution of increasing resource productivity to sustainability. Having a focus on economics, the international colloquium shall also cover the...