projections and the uncertainty created by the financial meltdown, the outlook for employment has deteriorated considerably. This … after 2-3 quarters. On current policies, the Commission projects employment growth to turn negative during the next two … social safety nets are fully playing their role and a number of new innovative policies are also keeping people in employment …

maintain high levels of employment and participation rates, especially among female and older workers, and to reduce structural …

new forms of employment were caused by the economic process of tertiarization. Furthermore, these kinds of employment were … politically demanded and financially supported. However, those forms of employment have their shortcomings. From an …

periods of seeking a new job during unemployment. With growing solo self-employment a new social phenomenon in the structure … each other. The question for the landscape of solo self-employment and related driving forces of their emergence is of … response to new life-styles and working demands which act as pulling factors into self-employment? In other words, does solo …

It is not clear, whether changes in self-employment are primarily driven by the necessity to take part in the labour … investigating the above-mentioned developments. Do we find specific “gender patterns” within the increasing expansion of self-employment …, or will the new chances and risks lead to greater equality of opportunities? Is the increase of solo-self-employment of …