"The most important aim of the 'Federal Government's immediate action programme to reduce youth unemployment' is undoubtedly the reduction of youth unemployment and in particular long-term unemployment among young people. In this respect one may assume that in regions with poor initial...

"Taking as an example the vocational training of unemployed people, problems of evaluation are discussed. The main problems are that there is still insufficient insight into the dynamics and the action mechanisms of the processes on the labour market and of the possibilities of intervention...

"In view of the continuing serious labour market imbalance, in the context of the reintegration section of the Federal Employment Services support funds on a scale of over DM 25 billion are spent year after year to facilitate the occupational integration of hard-to-place unemployed people. In...

"The first part of the treatise deals with the relationship between evaluation and quality management in labour market policy. The considerations on this point refer mainly to the fact that one-dimensional evaluation approaches based solely upon the results of integration balances are...

"The Swiss labour market situation is characterised by certain specific findings: the highest employment rate of all OECD countries, the highest part-time rate (after the 'world-champion in part-time employment', the Netherlands), the largest proportions of foreigners (with the exception of...

"In 2000 Germany experienced a strong economic upswing. The engine driving this development was the vigorous foreign demand. In total a 3.1% growth in real gross domestic product could be recorded. The number of employed persons rose in the annual average for 2000 by almost 600,000. Marginal...

"The paper considers lessons from the North America experience with evaluation of active labor market policies that may have applicability to countries in Europe that are just starting to become active in this area. I consider two dimensions of the evaluation problem. The first dimension is the...

"The prospects for Germany's economic development are good at present. Nonetheless there are also uncertainties and downsides. For this reason our labour market forecast for 2000 is based on a range of assumptions for the actual economic growth. The overview includes the basic data of these...

Bis 1993 war die Arbeitslosigkeit in Irland sehr hoch. In den letzten Jahren gab es einen anhaltenden Wirtschaftsaufschwung, sinkende Arbeitslosigkeit und steigende Beschäftigung. In dem Beitrag wird untersucht, welche Mechanismen hinter der Trendwende stehen. Es wird festgestellt, dass die...