"Trotz eines voraussichtlich zunehmenden Angebots an qualifizierten Frauen bei gleichzeitigem Fachkräftemangel erwarten gegenwärtig in den alten Bundesländern weniger Betriebe eine Expansion ihrer weiblichen Belegschaft, als dies bei der Beschäftigungsentwicklung der letzten faktisch der...

"Der Beitrag analysiert am Beispiel junger Fachkräfte, die nach Abschluß ihrer betrieblichen Ausbildung adäquat beschäftigt sind, den qualifikatorischen Stellenwert, den die Einarbeitung in den ersten Berufsjahren im Kontext von Ausbildung und institutionalisierter Weiterbildung hat. Im...

In dem Beitrag wird zunächst die Entwicklung der Rehabilitations- und Behindertenpolitik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland kurz umrissen. Im Hauptteil werden dann in den 80er Jahren veröffentlichte Forschungsarbeiten vorgestellt, die sich einerseits mit der Berufsausbildung und Umschulung...

"On the one side the success of the IAB Establishment Panel Survey can be traced to the high response rate and the excellent data quality necessary for panel analyses as well as the unique possibility to use the establishment register of the Employment Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency...

"The German dual apprenticeship system has come under pressure in recent years because enterprises have not been willing to provide a sufficient number of apprenticeship positions. An argument that is frequently put forward is that the gap could be closed if more firms were willing to incur net...

"The article deals with the impact of uncertainty as regards the retention of trainees completing vocational training programmes on firms' training behaviour. As an alternative to vocational training, the external recruitment of skilled workers is considered via an opportunity costs approach....

"This paper adopts an economic perspective for an investigation of the correlation between cost-benefit aspects and company decisions regarding training. A differentiation is drawn between the basic decision about whether a company should provide its own training and the stipulation of the...

"This paper uses regional variation in labor markets, the industry structure and the education system to explain the training decisions of firms. Using a representative firmlevel data set, the results show that firms are less likely to provide training if the number of competing firms situated...

"This paper uses regional variation in labor markets, the industry structure and the education system to explain the training decisions of firms. Using a representative firmlevel data set, the results show that firms are less likely to provide training if the number of competing firms situated...