Some scholars of social policy claim that the traditional post war Keynesian Welfare State has been transformed towards a Schumpeterian Workfare State (Jessop 1994, Tor-fing 1999a). Others conceptualise welfare state reform as transformation towards an Enabling (Gilbert/Gilbert 1989), Activating...

Der Arbeitsmarkt entwickelt sich in einigen Ländern besser als in Deutschland. Am Beispiel der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in den USA, Großbritannien, Dänemark und den Niederlanden werden Gemeinsamkeiten, und Unterschiede identifiziert. Inwieweit lassen sich die arbeitsmarktpolitischen Maßnahmen...

Job rotation as an important element of labour market policy has only a rather short tradition in most Member States of the European Union, except in the scandinavian countries. The transnational partnership job rotation was founded at the end of 1995 and financing for job rotation projects came...

Social insurance systems are known to reproduce gender inequalities in the labour market because they are usually based on 'standard employment contracts' (full-time, permanent, dependent) and often take into account the household constellation through means-testing. Gender inequalities in the...