The study reports comprehensively about further vocational training activities in the context of regular employment relationships in western and eastern Germany. In a comparative analysis of the participants in and the structure of further vocational training special emphasis is placed on a...

"In the 'further training' survey focus of the 1997 IAB establishment panel information was collected concerning the distribution and extent of various forms of company training, the participation of individual groups of workers as well as reasons for a lack of further training. The empirical...

"On the basis of data from the 'further training' survey focus of the 1997 IAB establishment panel, this report explains that the intensity of company further training indeed varies considerably between the different qualification and status groups. In particular qualified non-manual employees...

"With the introduction of the Employment Promotion Act (GDR) on 01.07.1990, short-time working benefit was put to use as an employment and training measure in eastern Germany, too. In particular in the first year after reunification it contributed on a large scale to relieving the pressure on...

"Since the end of the 1980s telework has been a central subject of political and scientific debates about the structural change in the economy and society. The main focus of attention has so far been the work in the field of information and communication (I&C) technology which is performed...

Seit 1993 baut das IAB ein Betriebspanel auf, mit dessen Hilfe Daten über die Beschäftigungsentwicklung und deren Bestimmungsgrößen erhoben werden, um damit differenzierte Informationen über die Nachfrageseite des Arbeitsmarktes gewinnen zu können. 1996 ist dieses Panel auf Ostdeutschland...

"In den Jahren 1984 und 1988 erfolgten in der DDR umfassende Lohndatenerhebungen, vorwiegend in der Industrie. Die Stichmonatserhebung vom September 1988 erfaßte personenbezogene Lohndaten und weitere damit korrespondierende Angaben von 2,4 Mio. Beschäftigten. Das Ziel bestand darin, für die...