Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effects of comprehensive education as compared with vocational training by using Swedish data on a large sample of unemployed individuals aged 25 to 55. Design/methodology/approach – The Adult Education Initiative (AEI) in Sweden was...

The training challenges facing organisations resulting from changes over the next several decades are described. These include a decreasing umber of persons available for entry level positions including a growing proportion of undereducated young people. Also, jobs will become more complex as a...

Macroeconomic data are examined to identify the factors which influence the job search duration of American workers during the 1970s and 1980s. Among the factors investigated, the overall unemployment rate and personal characteristics of job seekers emerge as more important influences on search...

Abstract In dem Beitrag soll auf die Veränderungen und Herausforderungen eines sich wandelnden Arbeitsmarktes eingegangen werden. Zunächst wird der Blick auf Beschäftigungsformen gerichtet, die nicht dem klassischen Normalarbeitsverhältnis entsprechen. Im Anschluss wird, nach einer...

Summary In many countries on the European continent, it is feared that public funding of tertiary education (university and non-university) leads to an undesirable redistribution of income “from the bottom up”. The calculation of private rates of return is one way of answering this and other...