International Journal of Manpower: Volume 28 Issue 1

New perspectives on labour market intervention

Thomas Lange, Yannis Georgellis

To introduce the papers which make up a special issue of IJM on labour market intervention.

Evaluating active labour market programmes in New Zealand

Geoff Perry, Tim Maloney

The aims of this paper are to measure the impacts of subsidy, work experience and training programmes on New Zealand male registered unemployed, and to examine the sensitivity of…

Active labour market policy in Scotland: does it make a difference?

John Adams, Ray Thomas

The paper aims to show that active labour market policies in Scotland over a nine‐year period have failed to meet key policy objectives.

Comprehensive education or vocational training for the unemployed?

Anders Stenberg

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effects of comprehensive education as compared with vocational training by using Swedish data on a large sample of unemployed…

Intervention at the level of the firm: Employer‐sponsored training and wage growth in post‐unification Germany

Yannis Georgellis, Thomas Lange

The aim of the paper is to assess the determinants and impact of employer sponsored further training on wage growth in West Germany over the period 1992 to 2002.

Gender‐job satisfaction differences across Europe: An indicator for labour market modernization

Lutz C. Kaiser

The primary objective of this study is to test whether gender differences in job satisfaction are assignable to variations in labour market and welfare state regimes in the light…