In jüngster Zeit ist ein zunehmendes Interesse am Thema Sozialfirma zu verzeichnen. Sozialfirmen beschäftigen Menschen mit Leistungsbeeinträchtigungen und verfolgen damit sowohl soziale als auch wirtschaftliche Ziele mit gleicher Priorität. Diese Form der sozialen Innovation versucht sich in...

Wie in sämtlichen anderen Industrienationen, so steigt auch in Deutschland der Bedarf an hochqualifizierten Arbeitskräften. Grund ist der anhaltende Strukturwandel hin zu einer forschungs- und wissensintensiven Gesellschaft. Bereits jetzt zeichnen sich jedoch Engpässe bei den qualifizierten...

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the regional labor markets for Belgium. The paper examines labor market performance, and argues that a number of factors—poor worker-job matching, a compressed wage structure, and low geographical mobility—contribute to economic disparities. The paper...

The growth rate of real hourly wages in France has fallen below the trend growth rate of total factor productivity. The distribution of wage and earnings growth has not been uniform across deciles. A breakdown in employment growth by wage deciles also suggests important composition changes. The...

Despite improvements in labor market performance over the past decade, owing in part to past reforms, Italy''s employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. This paper reviews Italy''s institutional landscape and labor market trends from a cross-country...

More than a decade after the start of the transition process, unemployment rates remain in the double digits in a number of Central and Eastern European countries. That unemployment rates have failed to decline, even in countries experiencing good growth, is puzzling. In this paper the authors...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Emergence of the Basic Income Concept as a Negative Income Tax (the 60s) -- Chapter 3.The Age of Negative Income Tax Experimentation (the 70s) -- Chapter 4. Basic Income Beyond the Negative Income Tax (the 80s and 90s) -- Chapter 5. Basic Income in the 21st...