Der Beitrag behandelt folgende Aspekte: "1. Anlaß und Ziele der Strukturberichterstattung 2. Die arbeitsmarktpolitische Bedeutung der Strukturberichterstattung 3. Der arbeitsmarktpolitische Informationsgehalt der Strukturberichte der Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute 4. Ergebnisse und Defizite der...

"Längerfristige Beschäftigungsbeziehungen und betriebsinterne Teilarbeitsmärkte erfahren in diesem Beitrag zunächst eine vertragtheoretische Deutung: Explizite Arbeitsverträge werden ex ante in allgemeiner Form abgeschlossen, bevor ex post individuelle Arbeitsbeziehungen gestaltet werden....

"The efficiency of publicly funded further training comes under controversial discussion. Relevant evaluation studies provide diverging findings, which can be put down not least to inadequate data. This article examines the effectiveness of further training measures for the unemployed that are...

"The management approach of management by objectives (MBO) is currently experiencing a renaissance in European labour market policy. This paper first recapitulates key conceptional principles of the management by objectives model and stresses the relevance of the moral hazard problem. Then there...

"The most important aim of the 'Federal Government's immediate action programme to reduce youth unemployment' is undoubtedly the reduction of youth unemployment and in particular long-term unemployment among young people. In this respect one may assume that in regions with poor initial...

"Taking as an example the vocational training of unemployed people, problems of evaluation are discussed. The main problems are that there is still insufficient insight into the dynamics and the action mechanisms of the processes on the labour market and of the possibilities of intervention...

"In view of the continuing serious labour market imbalance, in the context of the reintegration section of the Federal Employment Services support funds on a scale of over DM 25 billion are spent year after year to facilitate the occupational integration of hard-to-place unemployed people. In...

"The first part of the treatise deals with the relationship between evaluation and quality management in labour market policy. The considerations on this point refer mainly to the fact that one-dimensional evaluation approaches based solely upon the results of integration balances are...