Direct job creation has long been a classic instrument of labour market policy, pursuing a number of potential goals. Recently in Germany, policies of this type have come under growing pressure. This is partly due to the increasingly scarce resources available for job creation measures. Taken...

Die Arbeitswelt befindet sich in einem fundamentalen Wandel, der sich durch ein Wachstum von prekären Beschäftigungsverhältnissen und eine fortschreitende Ausdifferenzierung der Erwerbsformen auszeichnet. Ein neues Phänomen sind ›geförderte Existenzgründungen‹ von vormals arbeitslosen...

Im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Beitrags steht der durch die Arbeitsmarktreformen in Deutschland eingeleitete qualitative Wandel in der Beziehung zwischen Individuum und Solidargemeinschaft bzw. zwischen Bürger/in und Wohlfahrtsstaat. Dieser Wandel spiegelt sich in veränderten...

Das politische System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat in den letzten Jahren einen massiven Wandel seiner Regierungs- und Steuerungsfähigkeit erfahren, der im politikwissenschaftlichen Diskurs als neue Form der "Governance" beschrieben wird. Eine Erscheinungsform des konstatierten Wandels ist...

"The Vocational and Career Psychology Service (BPS) of the German National Employment Agency has developed four new services for competence assessment. They can be used by job placement officers and case workers to better identify soft skills of their customers and use the results for job search...

On May 1st, 2004, the European Union (EU) carried out the most comprehensive enlargement since its establishment in 1957 with the accession of eight Central- and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) as well as Malta and Cyprus. Within this enlarged EU two major political aims were set up, namely...

In March 2000 the European Council of Lisbon introduced the 'open method of co-ordination' (OMC) as a new policy instrument to tackle politically sensitive areas, namely social inclusion, old-age security, health, and long-term care. This paper gives a view over the most important developments...

In this position paper we deal with the conception of heterogeneity as both the force and the result of evolutionary change. We ask, how this heterogeneity can be measured empirically and how we can get a measure which allows to get a broad comparable empirical account especially on several...

Within the last 25 years large progress has been made in Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, this branch of economic literature which deals with dynamic processes causing qualitative transformation of economies basically driven by the introduction of novelties in their various and multifaceted forms....

This paper analyses the current financial crisis from a Neo-Schumpeterian perspective. We postulate four linkages that led to the crisis, and that will help us find our way out of the crisis. Therefore, we show that the current evolution is very similar to the Japanese crisis in the beginning of...