The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...

The objective of this paper is to study the long term effects of public policy measures for displaced workers. Our focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These...

Marginal Employment, i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal...

While there is consensus on the need to raise the time spent in the market by European women, it is not clear how these goals should be achieved. Tax wedges, assistance in the job search process, and part-time jobs are policy instruments that are widely debated in policy circles. The paper...

The study evaluates different ESF-funded labour market programmes by comparing the labour market status at different points in time after the treatment. In order to solve the selection problem we employ a standard matching algorithm with a multi-dimensional distance measure. The effects of the...

Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal...

Durch die Krisenbearbeitung der Europäischen Union hat sich ein europäischer Interventionismus herausgebildet, der die Rahmenbedingungen für eine nationale Arbeitsmarktregulierung einschränkt. Während in der Vergangenheit vor allem jene Länder im wissenschaftlichen Fokus standen, welche...

Dieser Beitrag bietet einen Überblick über den Forschungsstand zum Politikstilkonzept und diskutiert dessen Potenzial für die Analyse der Wirkungen arbeitsmarktpolitischer Programme. Ausgangspunkt ist, dass die Heterogenität administrativer Organisationen stärker in den Blick genommen...