Flexible manufacturing systems, team work with decentralisation of decision-making, integration of tasks and multiple allocation across functional barriers demand a skilled work force prepared for continuous learning and adaptation. It is common to see a younger, well-educated and trained work...

The original essays in this book have been written by a number of leading international experts in the field of labour market studies to honour the intellectual contribution and lifetime achievement of Günther Schmid.

Since the mid 1990s, the focus of European employment and social policy has shifted from protection to promotion. This book provides a timely analysis of this new form of governance, and the new forms of policy delivery and audit which accompany it.

We investigate the dense and sparse regions of a d-dimensional Poisson process and establish strong laws for both the maximal and the minimal number of points in families of sets of a certain volume.

Let S0, S1,..., be a simple symmetric random walk of 2, S0=0, and [xi](x,n)=#{k:0<k[less-than-or-equals, slant]n, Sk=x} be the local time of the random walk. We prove that , where is the circle of radius r and R(n)=exp{(log n)1/2/(log log n)1/2+[var epsilon]}, [var epsilon]>0.