Innovative Employment Initiatives

Part 1 Market governance and macroeconomic management in employment policies: substitutabilities vs. complementarities between structural and macroeconomic policies. Part 2 Employment generation and unemployment strategies in Europe and the United States: the divergence in employment and income distribution in the EU and the US; cutting welfare while expanding work subsidied - the odd twist in American welfare reform. Part 3 Advanced and transitional European political economies: the political economy of a consensus society; experience form behind the dykes; generating employment in economies of transition; the case of Slovenia. Part 4 Reorganizing flexible labour markets: innovative employment initiatives - some thoughts on the flexibility of the wage bargaining process; transitional labour markets; a new European employment strategy. Part 5 Reducing unemployment by increasing employability - or by reducing working time?: clues to overcoming unemployment; the reduction of working time, pay and employment; the policy of employment creation and working time reduction of the New French government. Part 6 Designing market initiatives vs. distributing benefits in creating new employment opportunities: creating employment incentives; gendered job generation and unequal opportunities - innovative employment initiatives and equal opportunities. Part 7 Demographic changes and employment opportunities: demographic shifts, fiscal pressures and long-term employment opportunities. Part 8 Benchmarking: benchmarks - employment indicators for policy-makers. Part 9 Coping with youth unemployment: youth unemployment - recent innovative initiatives in selected European Union countries; best practice of youth (un)employment into or out of crisis?; some facts and figures on the apprenticeship system in Austria. Part 10 Rural employment promotion: employment in rural areas. Part 11 UN world social summit related perspectives: notes on macroeconomic policy; the social summit and the search for democratic market economies.