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...

Ziel des Beitrags ist es, Licht in die Grauzone atypischer Beschäftigung und ihrer arbeits- und sozialrechtlichen Absicherung zu bringen. Als atypische Beschäftigungsverhältnisse definieren wir Teilzeitarbeit, geringfügige Beschäftigung, befristete Beschäftigung und...

We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone, couples only, living with their married children, living...

The cohort sustainability of welfare regimes is of central importance to most long-term analyses of welfare state reforms (see for example: Esping-Andersen et al., 2002). A complement to these analyses shows that changes in intra versus inter cohort inequalities are major outcomes or...