"Employment and training measures funded through labour market policy are gaining in importance quantitatively in the transition process of young people from general education into employment. Not least the Federal Government's immediate action programme to reduce youth unemployment, which came...

"Whilst in applied empirical research, training in general human capital is mainly explained by structural characteristics of firms, this paper introduces business expectations as an additional explanatory factor. Business expectations are strictly time-variate and firm-specific and reflect both...

"Vor dem Hintergrund einer anhaltend starken Nachfrage nach Gesundheitsdienstleistungen wurden in den letzten Jahren von der Bundesagentur für Arbeit Maßnahmen zur Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung im Pflegebereich in großem Umfang gefördert. In dem Beitrag wird der...

"The number of self-employed people in Germany increased slightly from the early 1980s and has increased to a greater extent since the beginning of the 1990s. Starting from the 1970s a considerable change has been observed in the fields of activity of the self-employed, which has always been an...

"Employment and training measures funded through labour market policy are gaining in importance quantitatively in the transition process of young people from general education into employment. Not least the Federal Government's immediate action programme to reduce youth unemployment, which came...

"Whilst in applied empirical research, training in general human capital is mainly explained by structural characteristics of firms, this paper introduces business expectations as an additional explanatory factor. Business expectations are strictly time-variate and firm-specific and reflect both...

"The number of self-employed people in Germany increased slightly from the early 1980s and has increased to a greater extent since the beginning of the 1990s. Starting from the 1970s a considerable change has been observed in the fields of activity of the self-employed, which has always been an...

"Das Inkrafttreten des SGB II am 1.1.2005 bringt umfangreiche Änderungen des Arbeitsmarktgeschehens in Deutschland mit sich. Deren wissenschaftliche Begleitung wird vom IAB als eine der wichtigsten kommenden Herausforderungen an die Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung betrachtet. Die Darstellung...