This paper analyzes the consequences of pursuing a less activist Government employment stabilization policy strategy in Egypt. On the basis of a fairly stylized model we find that a reduction of the Government’s involvement in the economy along with an introduction of mild but binding firing...

Participation rate on the Greenland labour market: situation of year 2000. A goal is that a large part of the population of normal working age is employed. The participation rate is one of the statistics used to describe the performance of the economy in this respect. Two sources are used to...

"Produktion und Reproduktion in einer Gesellschaft, ihre Arbeits- und Sozialordnung sowie die gesamtgesellschaftlichen Arrangements in Familie und Erwerbsarbeit basieren auf einem mehr oder weniger explizit formulierten 'Gesellschaftsvertrag' (social contract). Der jeweilige 'social contract'...