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Active Labor Market Policies in Europe

Measures of Active Labor Market Policy - such as training, wage subsidies, public employment measures, and job search assistance ...

Berufliche Passagen im Lebenslauf : Berufsbildungs- und Transitionsforschung in der Schweiz = Vocational passages in the CV: Vocational training and transition research in Switzerland

During the transition from school to work, important groundwork is laid that prepares the further course of a person's life. ...

Bringing the Jobless into Work?

Over the last decade, many industrialized countries shifted from passive unemployment and welfare benefit regimes and traditional ...

Demographic Change in Germany

Just as one might be inclined to thinkthat every thing about demographic change has been already said and heard, a new dimension ...

Female Employment and Gender Gaps in China

This book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic ...

Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda

Some social sciences contend that marriage is the solution to many of the problems associated with single-parent families. ...

Immigration Policy and the Labor Market

German and European immigration policies have only recently begun to cope with the inevitable: growing labor demand in the ...

Jacob Mincer

This volume contains essays by or about Jacob Mincer who, along with Gary Becker, is a founding father of modern empirical ...

Migrants and Expats: The Swiss Migration and Mobility Nexus

This book provides insight on current patterns of migration in Switzerland, which fall along a continuum from long-term and ...

Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets A Comparative Approach on Legal Barriers and Enablers

This book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a ...

Mobilities of the Highly Skilled towards Switzerland

This book analyses the strategies of migration intermediaries from the public and private sectors in Switzerland to select, ...

Public Policy in an Entrepreneurial Economy

From the reviews: “Acs and Stough’s collection of essays … adopts a narrower view and focuses on the relationships ...

Revisiting Migrant Networks : Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets

This book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. ...

Social Pacts, Employment and Growth

In this book leading European economists examine the current status of social pacts and their future. Particular focus is ...

The Employment Effects of Technological Change : Heterogenous Labor, Wage Inequality and Unemployment

This book provides an empirical and theoretical examination of the short- and medium run impacts of technological advances ...

The Global Lives of German Migrants Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course

Based on the German case, this book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual ...

Vocationalisation of Secondary Education Revisited

The book is a cutting-edge contribution to the debate which has occurred for some time on the pros and cons of secondary ...

West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

This book explores obstacles that impede, and potential pathways toward improving, the material and psychological well-being ...

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