Germany is widely known for its high-quality vocational education and training (VET) system. The two key features of … enormously in the last years in many (European) countries, this has not been the case in Germany. From the outside, therefore, it … may look as if Germany’s low youth unemployment rate is to be credited to the dual system. That observation, however, is …

- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

In this paper we discuss determinants of firm survival and growth in Germany within its pre-1989 boundaries. We develop …

phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change management as a measure against it. A second branch of the empirical … management measures or union activities in order to predict employee resistance against innovations seems too narrow. …