Die vorliegende Studie entwickelt einen analytischen Bezugsrahmen für eine idealtypische Evaluierung der Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Zur Illustration dient das Arbeitsmarktpolitische Rahmenprogramm der Berliner Landesregierung. Dabei standen die vom Europäischen Sozialfonds kofinanzierten...

Der Beitrag zeigt theoretisch wie empirisch, dass die derzeitige Ausgestaltung des Geschlechtervertrags mögliche Komplementaritäten von Gleichheit und Effizienz nicht ausnutzt. So werden beispielsweise die hohen Bildungsinvestitionen von Mädchen und Frauen von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft bei...

The international literature on active labour market programmes has generated inconsistent and confusing, but generally pessimistic, conclusions regarding their impact on the employment prospects of participants. This paper argues that much of this confusion is due to a general lack of attention...

Substantial theoretical, conceptual and empirical advances have been made in research on the implementation of EU policies during recent years. However, our findings have remained ambivalent and our theoretical insights disparate. It therefore seems high time to address some issues that cause...

This is a paper based on the annual lecture in honour of Hugo Sinzheimer at November 10, 2005, Hugo-Sinzheimer-Institute at the University of Amsterdam. In 1928, Sinzheimer wrote an article entitled Die Demokratisierung des Arbeitsverhältnisses, (The Democratisation of the Employment...

Propensity score matching provides an estimate of the effect of a treatment variable on an outcome variable that is largely free of bias arising from an association between treatment status and observable variables. However, matching methods are not robust against hidden bias arising from...

Es gibt kein Recht auf Faulheit in unserer Gesellschaft. Mit diesen Worten setzte Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder im April dieses Jahres eine heiße Debatte über faule Arbeitslose in Gang, die bereits einige historische Vorläufer hatte. Der Beitrag untersucht zuerst, ob die verschiedenen...

Social insurance systems are known to reproduce gender inequalities in the labour market because they are usually based on standard employment contracts (full-time, permanent, dependent) and often take into account the household constellation through means-testing. Gender inequalities in the...

This paper starts off by briefly considering some of the problems of future studies; it discusses how the origins and principles of the systems of regulation and security have generated different employment systems in Europe. The concept of employment systems allows us to identify how the future...

The issue addressed in this paper is how to obtain a composite measure of several indicators using benchmarking principles. While the exposition is only in two dimensions, and thus can be presented graphically, this is sufficient to capture the essence of the methodology and provide the basis...