"Ausgewählt wurde Literatur, die sich mit den Wirkungen - gleich ob angestrebt oder nicht - staatlich-politischer Maßnahmen befaßt. Der hierbei zugrundeliegende Begriff von Wirkungsforschung wurde bewußt weit gefaßt. ... Die Bibliographie weist insgesamt ca. 200 Titel nach. Sie ist im...

"The particularly large decrease in the labour force participation of older workers since the mid-70s in the Federal Republic of Germany is primarily due to institutional policy factors. To contract the current problems of mass unemployment, legislators demanded policies for reducing the overall...

"This paper provides an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labour market and social policy in Germany. It not only shows the changes in the instruments of active and passives labour market policies but also analyzes the implications of this change for the political economy, the...

"In many countries fairly large and persistent regional disparities can be observed for a variety of economic indicators. Since these disparities can not be reduced to one single dimension, a classification system is needed to give a parsimonious overview. The article presents a system which is...

"This paper presents a regional case study of the labour market and its surrounding of Vinh City in central Vietnam, based on surveys conducted in 1999 and 2005. By including the time dimension and surveying samples with over 6000 individuals respectively it is possible to identify precisely the...

"Over the last decade, both the availability of quantitative indicators on labor market institutions and of studies trying to explain differences in national labor market performance through institutional variables have burgeoned significantly. It is now time to review these indicators and the...

"Institutional changes in the governance of employment services were the starting point of comprehensive labour market and social policy reforms - the so-called Hartz-reforms (2003-2005) - in Germany. Particularly with the Hartz IV reform in 2005 Germany's status- and occupation-oriented social...

"Als Bedingung für ihren Beitritt zur Europäischen Union mussten sich die im Mai 2004 aufgenommenen zehn neuen Länder den ökonomischen, rechtsstaatlichen und demokratischen Standards der Europäischen Union angleichen und das EU-Recht übernehmen. Zu den Beitrittskriterien gehörte unter...