In this paper, we examine major trends and potential for cooperatives in the context of four prominent socio-economic issues: the lack of jobs, economic and social inequality, educational mobility, and the priority need for innovations. We present recent data on the amount and types of job...

Im Rahmen dieser Studie werden Ausbildungspendler untersucht, d. h. die durch die Aufnahme einer betrieblichen Ausbildung motivierte Mobilität von Jugendlichen. Mit Hilfe verschiedener Indikatoren, die aus Daten der Statistik der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten der Bundesagentur...

We use 1994-1998 data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to measure the incidence and determinants of several types of worker training and to estimate the effects of training on workers? interindustry, interfirm, and occupational mobility, their labor force transitions, and...

The paper investigates the impact of different types of training on the mobility expectations of workers, using two new data sets, one of individuals the other of firms. The innovation is that the data incorporate measures of the degree of transferability of training, improved information on the...