The paper presented three related issues. A first objective was to shed light on some of the facts of the employment impacts of trade and investments abroad, including highly controversial themes as off-shoring of the production of goods and services. A second objective was to debate the options...

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...

In response to the global recession, many multinational companies (MNCs) in the auto industry adjusted labour levels in their plants around the world. This paper examines the responses of Ford, GM, and Bosch in relation to plants in their home countries and in their subsidiary companies in...

Zwar zeigen neuere ILO-Forschungsergebnisse, dass OECD-Länder, die numerisch flexible Arbeitsmärkte haben, Arbeitsmarkterfolge erzielen konnten, doch zeigen Indikatoren der Arbeitsplatzqualität (gemessen an Löhnen, wahrgenommener Arbeitsplatzsicherheit, Zugang zur Weiterbildung usw.), dass...

"Die in den vergangenen Jahren anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosigkeit machte arbeitsmarktpolitische Gegenmaßnahmen immer notwendiger. Dabei spielten Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen (ABM) in vielen Ländern eine wichtige Rolle. In dem Artikel werden die Programme zur Arbeitsbeschaffung aus fünf Ländern...

La mondialisation et les délocalisations qui l'accompagnent sont-elles à l'origine des pertes d'emploi et de la dégradation des conditions de travail ? Toutes les analyses économiques réfutent cette idée, lorsqu'elles prennent en compte les effets d'ensemble au niveau national ou global et...

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.