The paper contains analysis of, critical remarks on, and constructive suggestions to Towards Common Principles of Flexicurtity of the European Commission (2007). The latter promotes relaxing the employment protection legislation while providing advances in employment and social security for...

The notion of flexicurity was introduced in the late 1990s. It promotes the idea of compensation of deregulation of labour markets (= flexibilization) by advantages in employment and social security, in particularly for flexibly employed (other than permanent full-time, called also atypically...

Das Diskussionspapier gibt einen Überblick über die Befragungsergebnisse der WSI-Betriebsrätebefragung 2007 zum Thema Standortverlagerung und Ausgliederung. Die Analyse stellt zum einen das Ausmaß und die Struktur der Verlagerungen und Ausgliederungen in deutschen Betrieben mit Betriebsrat...

Five leading German political parties and their coalitions are evaluated with regard to party manifestos and results of the 2005 parliamentary elections. For this purpose, the party manifestos are converted into Yes/No answers to 95 topical questions (Relax the protection against dismissals?...

Im Folgenden werden die Forschungsdefizite zu Mini- und Midijobs im Kontext aktivierender Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik dargestellt. Daran anschließend wird in 1.2 der theoretische Zugang des RESORE Projektes skizziert, die Begriffe ?subventionierte Beschäftigung? und ?work-welfare nexus?...

Reducing disparities among regions within European countries together with economic development is the aim of European and national structural policies. In particular, a European grant contributes to the German governmental program for reducing and equalizing regional unemployment. The goal is...