Persistently high unemployment rates are a major threat to the social cohesion in many societies. To moderate the consequences of unemployment industrialized countries spend substantial shares of their GDP on labor market policies, while in recent years there has been a shift from passive...

Die Arbeitsmarktsituation älterer Erwerbspersonen ist in den vergangenen Jahren stärker in den Fokus der Arbeitsmarktakteure in Deutschland und Schleswig-Holstein gerückt. Aufgrund der fortschreitenden Alterung der Erwerbsbevölkerung nimmt die Bedeutung dieser Altersgruppe für den...

Die Arbeitsmarktsituation älterer Erwerbspersonen ist in den vergangenen Jahren stärker in den Fokus der Arbeitsmarktakteure in Deutschland und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gerückt. Aufgrund der rapide fortschreitenden Alterung der Erwerbsbevölkerung in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern nimmt die Bedeutung...

Die Arbeitsmarktsituation älterer Erwerbspersonen ist in den vergangenen Jahren stärker in den Fokus der Arbeitsmarktakteure in Deutschland und Hamburg gerückt. Aufgrund der fortschreitenden Alterung der Erwerbsbevölkerung nimmt die Bedeutung dieser Altersgruppe für den Arbeitsmarkt...

Preface -- Employment policy in the global and national context -- Re-thinking employment in in the Indian economy : inclusive growth and well-being / Elizabeth Hill -- Employment policy in the international development agenda and its relevance in India / Catherine Saget -- Judicial production...

This book offers a portrayal of the opportunities for social inclusion afforded to young people in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a view to building stronger youth policies in the region. The youth population must be included in development processes if progress is to be made towards more...

This paper examines the impact of job search methods on the output of the job search process in a segmented labor market. Theoretical models of job search, like the widely used search approach, generally contain only one parameter capturing all possible factors affecting the efficiency of...

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...