Über den gegenwärtigen Stand der Institutionalisierung von Evaluationen sowie den historischen Verlauf dieser Wissenssparte in westlichen Ländern informiert dieser Beitrag. Den Ausführungen vorangestellt sind eine Begriffserklärung sowie die Beschreibung internationaler Standards und...

Germany and China have been engaged in a wide range of vocational education and training (VET) cooperation activities since the 1980s. To clarify what organizations have been involved and what project types exist within VET cooperation, a semistructured survey had been conducted for collecting...

Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a skill-biased technical progress, restructuring of the firms, and last but...

Wages in Germany are usually fixed in a two-step process. Firstly, unions and employers' associations negotiate wage agreements at industry level. Secondly, the sectoral wage is modified at establishment level according to the demands of management, works councils and individual employees. Since...