"In this article we present the interdisciplinary, developmental and systemic approach to the study of work and aging that guides research at the Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development (JCLL). We introduce basic principles of adult development including its plasticity,...

"In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

"In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

"This paper analyses the development of labour productivity of a sample of comparable small and medium-sized enterprises in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992-2002. It emerges that the surviving eastern German enterprises were able to raise their efficiency to just under 87 % of the...

"In this article we present the interdisciplinary, developmental and systemic approach to the study of work and aging that guides research at the Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development (JCLL). We introduce basic principles of adult development including its plasticity,...

"The paper analyses the directions of inter-regional migration in Poland in the years 1995-2002 and points out some major factors that cause the migration. The analyses indicate the voivodships with the largest net migration flows (Mazowieckie, Pomorskie) are characterized by high relative GDP...

"Nach einer IAB/Ifo-Erhebung im Bankgewerbe erwarten in den kommenden Jahren bis 1991 die Kreditunternehmen insgesamt sowohl für das Geschäftsvolumen als auch für die Beschäftigung einen weiteren, jedoch im Vergleich zu 1982 bis 1986 leicht abgeschwächten Zuwachs, und zwar von gut 5% p.a....

"Im IAB sind auf produktionstheoretischer Basis eine Reihe von Produktivitätsfunktionen für die Analyse und Prognose der längerfristigen (potentiellen) Arbeitsproduktivität entwickelt und empirisch getestet worden, mit zahlreichen positiven Ergebnissen. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird die...

"The strong external demand, combined with favourable supply conditions in Germany, has set in motion an economic recovery. There is reason to believe that the upswing will become stronger and more widespread in 1998. For this reason in the middle Variant II of the IAB alterna-tive calculations...

Um Tendenzen und Einflußgrößen der mittelfristigen Personalentwicklung im westdeutschen Bauhauptgewerbe zu erfassen, wurden im Oktober 1989 und Oktober 1990 jeweils rund 900 Unternehmen schriftlich befragt (Rücklauf ca. 50%). Bei der zweiten Erhebung wurde zusätzlich nach den Erwartungen im...