There are determined the material conditions of the functioning of agriculture and peculiarities of implementation of work activity by people from rural areas in conditions of formation of the food security system of Ukraine.

The globalisation and the intensive economic and social integration incredibly activate people’s mobility. Bulgaria has been facing migration problems with the political, economical and social transformation since 1990, which completely changed the labour mobility environment. As a result,...

This paper presents the Gothenburg Population Panel (GOPP), a random sample of individuals who were living in Gothenburg at some point in time during the period 1915-1943. The individuals in the GOPP were searched for every fourth year in the registers of local tax authorities. The hit rate was...

Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde von Sonja Munz während ihrer Tätigkeit als Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, München, erstellt und an der Universität Augsburg (Prof. Dr. Anita B. Pfaff) als Dissertation angenommen. Abgeschlossen wurde sie im Juli 2007,...

Der Artikel veranschaulicht die Pendlerverflechtungen zwischen den sächsischen Gemeinden und stellt dar, welche Auswirkungen diese auf den kommunalen Finanzausgleich haben könnten. Mit den Pendlerverflechtungen geht auch eine zusätzliche Nachfrage nach öffentlichen Leistungen in den...

Information and communications technology, global value chains, and population ageing are changing the structures of the labour market. These three factors affect the tasks carried out in Finland in the future and the division of labour between humans and computers. The changes are taking place...

Industries go through different phases of evolution where old skills become obsolete and new skills arecrucial for the industrial renewal process. Industry evolution is usually addressed from the perspectives of production and exports, leaving one factor largely unexplored: human capital....

Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...

This paper analyses occupational changes in Britain between 1997 and 2006 from a task-based perspective using data from the UK Skills Surveys. In line with the existing literature, we show that employment has been polarizing. We analyse in detail the task content of the occupations which display...

The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...