This book presents findings and results from the recent European Union Company survey of Operating hours, Working times and Employment (EUCOWE) in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The EUCOWE-project is the first standardised company survey covering all...

Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich umfassend mit der Frage, worin zentrale Arbeitszeitkonflikte liegen, bei denen die Bedürfnisse des Arbeitgebers und des Arbeitnehmenden auf den ersten Blick nur schwer vereinbar erscheinen. Zahlreiche Beispiele von Expertinnen und Experten aus der Wissenschaft...

Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich damit, wie sich die Arbeitswelt in Zukunft verändern wird, wie diese Veränderungen gestaltet werden können und welche Auswirkungen auf Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und Gesellschaft zu erwarten sind. Die Digitale Transformation führt durch technologische Entwicklungen...

In April 2007 new legal rules concerning the driving and working hours of truck drivers have become valid in all member countries of the European Union. In the study of Christoph Manuel Meyer the dispatchers’ problem of combined vehicle routing and break scheduling is modelled and solved using...

Presents the findings on the regional dimensions of European labour markets. This book provides a conceptual and empirical study of the interactions between the European economy and its regions, paying particular attention to the issue of the transition of Central and Eastern European countries...

"German and European immigration policies have only recently begun to cope with the inevitable: growing labor demand in the face of high unemployment and a shrinking labor force due to demographic change. Despite the implementation of Germany's first immigration act and several European...

EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets: What Do We Know? -- Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement -- Labor Mobility in the Enlarged EU: Who Wins, Who Loses? -- Post-Enlargement Migration and Public Perception in the European Union -- The Impact of Migration on Destination Labor Markets -- EU...

The contributions collected in this volume take a fresh look at the traditional debate on education, training and labour market outcomes. The quality of education is difficult to measure in the education market and does not always find clear recognition in the labour market. The book provides...