"This timely book evaluates international human capital policies, offering a comparative perspective on global efforts to generate new ideas and novel ways of thinking about human capital. Examining educational reforms, quality of education and links between education and socio-economic...

Human Capital Over the Life Cycle synthesises comparative research on the processes of human capital formation in the areas of education and training in Europe, in relation to the labour market. The book proposes that one of the most important challenges faced by Europe today is to understand...

This book examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies and their contribution to the prevention of social exclusion. The evaluation studies reported in this volume focus on two aspects of active labour market policies that have been relatively neglected in previous research and...

Die Studie stellt verschiedene wissensrelevante Aspekte, wie Forschung und Entwicklung, Ausbildung und Arbeitsmarktchancen sowie regionale Unterschiede für Deutschland und im internationalen Kontext, dar. Dabei wird angesichts der sich weiter intensivierenden internationalen Arbeitsteilung...

The past ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in the apprenticeship system of industrial training. Employers have been shown to carry a large part of the cost of essentially general training with apparent little return to the firm - a problem which has generated a wide range of literature...

The economics major is a central part of a college education. But is that economics major doing what it is meant to do? And if not, how should it be changed? This book raises a set of provocative questions that encourage readers to look at the economics major in a different light than it is...

Throughout the developed and developing worlds, education spending is seen as a key tool for government policy makers in the quest for economic growth. Promoting 'human capital' development is a prime objective for economic and education ministries. The seminal articles discussed in this...

Die Studie befasst sich mit den Ursachen des Klimawandels und gibt einen Überblick über mögliche Konsequenzen der sich ändernden klimatischen Bedingungen, ohne jedoch ein vollständiges Lösungsschema für den Umgang mit den Herausforderungen des vom Menschen verursachten Klimawandels...