We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase with age.

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...

This paper surveys and compares national experience with performance management in European public employment services (PES) in the form of 'management by objectives' (MBO). Part I of this paper reviews the relevant performance management literature and defines key terms. Part II presents the...

Das Papier nimmt eine Bestandaufnahme zu den Systemen der Zielsteuerung (Controlling) in den öffentlichen Beschäftigungsdiensten von Dänemark, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Niederlanden, Österreich, Schweden und der Schweiz vor, um vor diesem Hintergrund die aktuellen Reformbemühungen in...

In January 1995 Austria, Sweden, and Finland became member states of the European Union. All three countries have traditionally given comparatively high priority to environmental protection. This paper deals with the question of what influence the new members will have on environmental...

Die Massenarbeitslosigkeit hat sich in Deutschland verfestigt. Die Wachstumsraten geraten eher bescheiden, auch wenn gerade in jüngster Zeit Aufhellungen sichtbar werden. 'Innovationen' gelten in dieser Situation vielen als eine Art Königsweg zur Schaffung neuer Einkommens- und...

Die Porträts der Zeitarbeit in Frankreich, Niederlande, Großbritannien, Dänemark. Schweden, Schweiz und Österreich zeigen, dass große Unterschiede in der Regulierung. Sie liefern auch eine Reihe von Anregungen für die deutsche Debatte über eine Re-Regulierung der Leiharbeit. Besonders...

Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...

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 considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...