"Over the past few years the situation on the international labour markets has changed dramatically. While countries such as the United States or Great Britain are being affected by increasing wage differentials, the unemployment figures in most continental European countries are on the rise. In...

Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....

Die Autoren stellen die Beiträge des Schwerpunktheftes zum Thema "Innovation und Qualifikation" vor. Sie zeigen, dass Innovationen und Qualifikationen in einer dynamischen Wechselbeziehung zueinander stehen. Innovationen haben gravierende Auswirkungen auf die notwendigen Qualifikationen,...

Die Autoren stellen die Beiträge des Schwerpunktheftes zum Thema "Innovation und Qualifikation" vor. Sie zeigen, dass Innovationen und Qualifikationen in einer dynamischen Wechselbeziehung zueinander stehen. Innovationen haben gravierende Auswirkungen auf die notwendigen Qualifikationen,...

Innovations are a key factor to ensure the competitiveness of establishments as well as to enhance the growth and wealth of nations. But more than any other economic activity, decisions about innovations are plagued by failures of the market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been...