"The crux of this article is the occupational situation of young handicapped people after their initial vocational training completed in rehabilitation centres or in private firms - in other words the type and conditions of their first job, their occupational consolidation, and also integration...

"The number of western German women who wish to work has increased continuously since the mid-sixties irrespective of the economic development. In eastern Germany it remained at a high level in spite of continuously high unemployment. With the crisis on the labour market in the early nineties,...