This essay argues that experience from more than three decades of labour market forecasting shows that forecasting helps greasing the wheels of labour markets. Applied correctly - not in the sense of old fashioned manpower planning models - sufficiently disaggregated employment outlooks support...

The flexibilisation of labour markets is called for by most political and economic and firms as the sesame towards economic competitiveness. But do employment systems and social protection regimes provide the workforce with the adequate social incentives - in the form of secured, qualifying and...

Upgrading the qualification level of the workforce has become a central issue among the governments of the European Union : in the race towards global economic competitiveness, human capital development should play a key role. Taking this statement as point of departure, the contributions...

This paper uses data from 20 OECD countries to investigate the impact of welfare state institutions (especially employment protection, wage bargaining and work incentives) on the functioning of the labour market both theoretically and empirically. It shows that the impact of welfare state...

Economic job search theory offers two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on job search outcomes among unemployed workers. By raising workers' reservation wages, unemployment benefits should contribute to both prolonged spell duration and improved...

Fasst man bisherige Evaluationsstudien von Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen zusammen, zeigt sich bei den Beschäftigungseffekten ein uneinheitliches Bild. Erfahrungen zeigen jedoch, dass mit einer systematischen Beobachtung des Qualifikationsbedarfs auf regionaler Ebene die Ergebnisse verbessert werden...

This paper deals with the question whether the concept of transitional labour market (TLM) might be useful to formulate hypotheses about the relationship between the size and nature of labour market transitions and the performance of employment regimes. The paper starts from the idea that the...

The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...

Die Studie vergleicht die Implementation von Jobrotation in dem genannten Bereich in Dänemark und Deutschland, auch weil in Dänemark generell langjährige Erfahrungen mit der Umsetzung des Instrumentes vorliegen, die wichtige Anregungen für Deutschland geben können. Mit Hilfe der...

Seit Mitte der neunziger Jahre spielt das Konzept der Übergangsarbeitsmärkte in der arbeitsmarktpolitischen Debatte eine wichtige Rolle. Die vorliegende Untersuchung versucht erstmals, die Bedeutung von Übergangsarbeitsmärkten nicht nur für das gesamte Bundesgebiet oder für West- und...