"We study the returns on education in Europe in a comparative perspective. We extend the model of de la Fuente [(2003). Human Capital in a Global and Knowledgebased Economy. part II: Assessment at the EU Country Level. Report for the European Commission], by estimating the values of the relevant...

"Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...

"In the past decades self-employment has gained in importance in the majority of EU Member States. In particular the proportion of small and one-person businesses shows an increasing trend. In contrast to the classical research into business start-ups, which usually focuses on sustainability in...

"Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...

"Other countries have already privatised their job placement systems to a greater extent than Germany has. This concerns such different welfare state regimes as Australia and Great Britain on the one hand and the Netherlands - and more recently also Belgium and Denmark - on the other hand....

"This article examines the consequences of contracting-out on the basis of the four criteria of efficiency, economy, effectiveness and equality (3 or 4 e's concept), which are borrowed from New Public Management research. The paper is based on 76 expert interviews and informative discussions...

"Nach Darstellung des Freizügigkeitsbegriffs und der gesetzlichen Bestimmungen war es Ziel der Untersuchung festzustellen, ob sich die stufenweise Verwirklichung der Freizügigkeit der Arbeitskräfte auf die Höhe der Wanderungen zwischen den EGStaaten ausgewirkt hat. Aufgrund der vorliegenden...

"Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt wird in dieser Untersuchung verstanden als ein Prozeß in Richtung gleicher Erwerbsstrukturen zwischen einheimischen und ausländischen Erwerbstätigen. Ähnliche Erwerbsstrukturen signalisieren erfolgreiche Integration. Um den Stand der Integration sichtbar zu...

"In the 1980s the Netherlands found itself in a more far-reaching crisis than its European neighbours. The essential features of the policy reorientation - essentially wage restraint and reduction of working time, together with the linking of the Dutch Guilder to the D-Mark - have been retained...