employment, trades and vocational qualifications” and for DG V (Employment) of the European Commission in the late 1994. It … instruments were not used in a minimum extend. The new Government, issued from the 1995 elections, proposed “employment” as a … major objective with horizontal responsibility. That’s also why there is now a Ministry for Qualifications and Employment …

thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based on the following topics: a) The employment policy (Time regimes …

The innovation in the employment behaviour is particularly clear in what concerns the sector composition of the … employment changes: the persistent decrease of the industrial employment (even if within a framework of some recovery of the … industrial product), a slight expansion in the employment on the tertiary sector, and an important growth of the employment in …

”. Is not only this sector that is growing in terms of employment, but also the other sectors can be also important ICT … users. Employment in the information society leads the employment growth in EU. In this study are analysed the different …

The Portuguese National Action Plan for Employment (NAP) is the main instrument for the labour market policy. It was …

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 …

This paper summarises the methodological approach and main results of the MARHE project (Employment and Human Resources …

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 …