Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency, much less attention has been paid to the impacts of...

This paper should be understood as a modest contribution to an emerging debate about the conclusions from the crisis and the future of the European Social Model. Inspired by the writings of Karl Polanyi, the first section of the paper discusses the nature and some of the main characteristics of...

Following ECB-president Draghi's remark that the European Social Model does no longer exist and the crisis can only be overcome through a combination of austerity and structural reform, this paper examines the consequences of austerity measures and structural reforms adopted during the crisis in...

1. Introduction / Christoph Hermann and Jorg Flecker -- 2. The process of liberalisation, privatisation and marketisation / Christoph Hermann and Koen Verhoest -- 3. Concentration and disintegration : company responses in the electricity sector and consequences for employment / Christoph Hermann...

Die New-Skills-Gespräche des AMS werden im Auftrag der Abt. Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation des AMS Österreich vom Österreichischen Institut für Berufsbildungsforschung (öibf; www.oeibf.at) gemeinsam mit dem Institut für Bildungsforschung der Wirtschaft (ibw; www.ibw.at)...