Verlagsinfo: This major new Handbook is a detailed, up-to-date guide to different national labour markets and policies to combat unemployment and their outcomes. It will become established as a standard reference book – the first of its kind – providing an authoritative account of the...

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

pt. 1. Methodology of labour market policy evaluation -- pt. 2. Evaluating labour market policies in selected target areas -- pt. 3. Evaluating institutional frameworks of labour market policy -- pt. 4. Evaluating policy targets at the European level

In this paper we analyse variations in capital operating hours. This is an important factor in understanding productivity but has attracted little attention (compared, for instance, to working hours for labour), presumably because of deficient data and the inherent difficulty of measurement....

The magnitude of the elasticity of output with regard to working hours is an important factor in the debate on working time. Despite some attempts at its estimation, little is known about this elasticity and empirical studies have yielded contradictory results. The main objective of this study...