In the Employment Guidelines for the year 2000, the European Commission stressed the need to develop a policy framework in order to fully exploit the employment potential of the service sector. This concern is especially related to Germany for its massive service gap compared to Anglo-Saxon...

In the context of the ongoing reforms on European labour markets the keyword flexicurity is presently gaining prominence. We therefore want to explore the importance of the flexicurity-concept on the example of the German Hartzreforms. Starting from the frequently used definition as a trade-off...

This is a paper based on the annual lecture in honour of Hugo Sinzheimer at November 10, 2005, Hugo-Sinzheimer-Institute at the University of Amsterdam. In 1928, Sinzheimer wrote an article entitled Die Demokratisierung des Arbeitsverhältnisses, (The Democratisation of the Employment...

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...

Over the last few years, benchmarking advanced to a key word in organisational development and change management. Originally, benchmarking was a tool in business studies summarising the process of comparing your own with a similar organisational unit (mostly the competitor) in order to improve...

Neben den Niederlanden ist Dänemark das einzige Land in der Europäischen Union, dem es gelang, die Arbeitslosigkeit seit 1994 - also innerhalb einer Regierungsperiode - zu halbieren. Bemerkenswert ist vor allem, daß die saisonbereinigte Arbeitslosigkeit der unter 25jährigen von 13,2 Prozent...

This paper sets out to explore the black box of recent employment dynamics in Germany and thus to identify positive and negative implications that might be of interest for future policymaking. The starting point of our analysis is the question as to whether recent employment growth in Germany is...

Although it has become fashionable to reject full employment as a realistic objective for economic and social policy, there is one important reason to stick to this goal. Full employment always reflected the idea that all persons should have the right to earn a decent living through their own...

The article provides a detailed analysis of the employment situation of older workers (55- 64 years) in the EU member states. Using European Labour Force Survey data we systematically discuss the variation in the employment of older workers along the dimensions of gender, sectoral distribution,...