Abstract Die arbeitsmarktpolitische Wiederentdeckung der Förderung älterer Arbeitnehmer und Arbeitsuchender im Rahmen der „Initiative 50 Plus“ wird vornehmlich demografisch begründet. Mit dem Verweis auf die Unterjüngung bzw. Überalterung der Bevölkerung erscheinen längere...

Zusammenfassung: Befristete Verträge werden in vielen Ländern der Europäische n Union als Instrument, Arbeitsmärkte flexibel zu gestalten, eingesetzt. Ein internationaler Vergleich zeigt, dass die befristete Beschäftigung nur bedingt die Durchlässigkeit der Arbeitsmärkte unterstützt....

Purpose – The current extensive literature on the home‐country employment effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) focuses almost exclusively on the investments from developed countries. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the home‐country employment effect in China, a country that...

Summary This paper presents an overview of recently developed estimation methods for dynamic panel data models with spatial correlation. We discuss the specification, the main assumptions and the implications of the model. The most important estimation strategy is the application of Generalized...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the long‐term effects of policy measures for displaced workers. The focus is on the individuals affected by the closure of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985 and the cutbacks at the LKAB mines in northern Sweden in 1983....

Purpose The purpose of this article is to complement the literature understanding present labour market measures as infused by a so-called neoliberal rationality, fostering self-managerial selves by means of self-inspection. It does so by providing a much-needed illustration of how such “work...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore and problematizes one of the oft-cited reasons why the implementation of public policy and other development initiatives goes wrong – namely that there is a mismatch or antagonistic relationship between street-level worker’s decisions and...