The emergence of new self-employment presents a challenge to political actors both in the individual European countries and at the EU level. The new selfemployed are exposed to the same social risks as dependent employees, but they generally enjoy fewer social and labour rights. How are social...

Lebensbegleitendes Lernen ist Voraussetzung einer qualitativen Verbesserung der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit der Arbeitnehmer und gleichsam bedeutend für die aktuelle und zukünftige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen. In diesem Beitrag wird die Implementation des Rechts auf berufliche Bildung...

In the Employment Guidelines for the year 2000, the European Commission stressed the need to develop a policy framework in order to fully exploit the employment potential of the service sector. This concern is especially related to Germany for its massive service gap compared to Anglo-Saxon...

In this paper it is shown that more generous early retirement provisions as well as lower employment lead to lower steady state pension rates if governments weigh the welfare of the older persons relatively strongly. A relatively stronger weight on the welfare of the young reverses the results....

The flexibilisation of labour markets is called for by most political and economic and firms as the sesame towards economic competitiveness. But do employment systems and social protection regimes provide the workforce with the adequate social incentives in the form of secured, qualifying and...

This article critically reviews a range of theoretical approaches to cross-national employment research. It classifies these studies in terms of universal and culturalist perspectives. Universalists tend to ignore the concept of culture, or at best acknowledge it as a marginal phenomenon or...

The prospects for successful implementation of the TLM approach in Poland depend on numerous factors, and it is important to remember that the impact of these factors will rarely be one-dimensional. TLMs would entail a series of both advantages and disadvantages for employers, employees, the...

Zunehmend ist von Risikomanagement die Rede. Für die Befürworter ist der Be-griff ein Hilfsmittel, um Managementtechniken aus der Betriebs- oder Finanzwirtschaft auch in die Sozial- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik zu übertragen; für die Kritiker ist der Begriff ein trojanisches Pferd, um neoliberale...

Das duale System der Erwerbstätigkeit mit der klaren Unterscheidung zwischen abhängiger und selbstständiger Erwerbstätigkeit ist historisch gewachsen. In Bezug auf das Arbeitsrecht zeigen sich deutliche Übereinstimmungen in den betrachteten Ländern Deutschland, Großbritannien,...

This paper explores the reasons behind the differences in the use and provision of different types of working time flexibility options of companies across European labour markets with a special focus on the country differences. Competing theories on the cross-country variances of labour market...