"In most of the OECD countries part-time employment has increased to a greater or lesser degree in the past few decades. With the aid of data from the European and individual national employment samples the study analyses the development of part-time employment, the causes of its growth, as well...

"This paper summarises, explains and evaluates the most important findings on the scale and causes of structural unemployment in Europe against the background of a standardised theoretical frame of reference. In literature, structural unemployment is usually interpreted as the unemployment that...

"Education is the 'raw material' of the knowledge-based society which is at the centre of the new neo-classical growth theory, and most of all at the heart of the evolutionary growth theory, as the innovation capabilities of economies depend on human capital. According to the more recent...