Preventing Unemployment in Europe : A New Framework for Labour Market Policy

by Klemmer, Paul; Wink, Rudiger

• ISBN13: 9781840645132
• ISBN10: 184064513X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Author Biography

Kerstin Baumgart: RUFIS - Ruhr Research Institute for Innovation and Regional Policy, Ruhr University at Bochum Dr. Dorothee Becker-Soest: RUFIS - Ruhr Research Institute for Innovation and Regional Policy, Ruhr University at Bochum Prof. Riccardo Cappellin: Universita Tor Vergata, Rome Henrik Halkier: Department for language and intercultural studies at Aalborg University Prof. Henning Jorgensen: CARMA - Centre for Labour Market Research at Aalborg University Prof. Dr. Paul Klemmer: RUFIS - Ruhr Research Institute for Innovation and Regional Policy, Ruhr University at Bochum Dr. Matthias Knuth: Institute for Work and Technology, Gelsenkirchen Prof. Luigi Orsenigo: Luigi Bocconi University, Milan Dr. Reinhard Penz: Department of Labour, Women, Health and Social Affairs in Saxony-Anhalt Philip Raines: European Policy Research Centre; University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Christian Roth: Institute for Political Sciences, University of Tubingen Dr. Markus Scheuer: Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research, Essen Prof. Dr. Josef Schmid: Institute for Political Sciences, University of Tubingen Prof. Dr. Thomas Straubhaar: HWWA Institute for Economic Research, Hamburg Dr. Rudiger Wink: RUFIS -- Ruhr Research Institute for Innovation and Regional Policy, Ruhr University at Bochum

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Preventing unemployment in Europe - an introductory overview	1	(12)
Paul Klemmer
Rudiger Wink
Part One: Preventive Labour Market Policy in a Changing Environment
The importance of labour market flexibility in the location decisions of international corporations	13	(18)
Markus Scheuer
International mobility of the highly skilled: `Brain Gain', `Brain Drain' or `Brain Exchange'?	31	(16)
Thomas Straubhaar
Further education in Europe - welcome to the market economy?	47	(18)
Dorothee Becker-Soest
Rudiger Wink
`How long does it take to turn around a tanker?' - Worker displacement and preventive labour market policy in Germany	65	(26)
Matthias Knuth
Part Two: National Experience With Preventive Labour Market Policy Strategies
Corporatist vs. market bargaining processes and foreign investment location: Evidence from Germany and the UK	91	(17)
Philip Raines
Danish labour market policy since 1994 - the new `Columbus Egg' of labour market regulation?	108	(29)
Henning J∅rgensen
Cooperative labour market policy in Eastern Germany	137	(29)
Reinhard Penz
The territorial dimension of modern industry and the scope of regional industrial and labour market policies	166	(25)
Riccardo Cappellin
Luigi Orsenigo
Part Three: Perspectives With Regard to European Learning Processes
From regional policy towards preventive labour market policy? - A multi-level governance perspective on the case of Denmark	191	(19)
Henrik Halkier
European labour market policy and national regimes of implementation	210	(22)
Josef Schmid
Christian Roth
Institutional learning of preventive labour market policy - an evolutionary approach	232	(21)
Paul Klemmer
Kerstin Baumgart
Dorothee Becker-Soest
Rudiger Wink
Index	253