"On the basis of establishment data for the manufacturing industry in Lower Saxony this article combines two research approaches which have so far been dealt with separately to a large extent in specialist literature. These are the influence of technological progress on the one hand and of...

"Company career policy is directed towards the organisation of transitions in working life. Taking into consideration its context, i.e. its legal, economic and (organisation-related) demographic conditions, it is possible to obtain meaningful statements regarding opportunities and risks on the...

"Employer-funded investments in human capital are associated with risks for firms which are difficult to calculate and which result from the unsecured binding to the firm of the employees in question. From a theoretical point of view the employer-side funding of investments in general or...

"In the first part of this paper key data on the qualification and training of older workers are presented and in the second part fundamental scientific concepts and findings are discussed. On the basis of recent data and surveys it can be proved that it is no longer possible to speak of a lower...

"Discussions about the consequences of the demographic change for the labour market and the economy have always been influenced by the idea that the unavoidable ageing and shrinking of the population relatively soon results in a lack of labour, a 'demographic change on the labour market', and in...

"The social inequality of the sexes in the labour market is closely related to the segregation into male and female occupations. This paper deals for the first time with the description and measurement of occupational segregation in firms using a representative databasis, and asks whether...

"The problems that older workers experience in finding new work are well-known. Those responsible for personnel management in firms play a key role in the reintegration of older workers. In this paper the results of a survey conducted among personnel managers are presented. The questions...

"On the one side the success of the IAB Establishment Panel Survey can be traced to the high response rate and the excellent data quality necessary for panel analyses as well as the unique possibility to use the establishment register of the Employment Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency...

"For many years there have been lively debates about the integration of women in the labour market, especially in terms of equality between women and men or the integration of women in management positions. In 2008 the data from the IAB Establishment Panel (Fischer et al. 2009) shed light on the...

Vor dem Hintergrund der anhaltenden Internationalisierungsstrategien in den Automobil- und Zulieferindustrieunternehmen entsteht ein Wandel in der unmittelbaren Umwelt der Organisation, der die Prozesse des kollektiven und individuellen Lernens stark beschleunigt. Diese Veraenderungen erfordern...