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Werner Eichhorst
Researcher at Institute for the Study of Labor
Publications - 115
Citations - 2968
Werner Eichhorst is an academic researcher from Institute for the Study of Labor. The author has contributed to research in topics: Unemployment & Welfare state. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 111 publications receiving 2765 citations. Previous affiliations of Werner Eichhorst include University of Mannheim.
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Five Characteristics of Youth Unemployment in Europe: Flexibility, Education, Migration, Family Legacies, and EU Policy
Jacqueline O'Reilly,Werner Eichhorst,András Gábos,Kari Hadjivassiliou,David Lain,Janine Leschke,Seamus McGuinness,Lucia Mýtna Kureková,Tiziana Nazio,Renate Ortlieb,Helen Russell,Paola Villa +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that current levels of youth unemployment need to be understood in the context of increased labor market flexibility, an expansion of higher education, youth migration, and family legacies of long-term unemployment.
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Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training
Costanza Biavaschi,Werner Eichhorst,Corrado Giulietti,Michael J. Kendzia,Alexander Muravyev,Janneke Pieters,Núria Rodríguez-Planas,Ricarda Schmidl,Klaus F. Zimmermann +8 more
TL;DR: The role of demographic factors, economic growth and labor market institutions in explaining young people's transition into work, as well as differences in the setup and functioning of the vocational education and training policies in major world regions, are assessed.
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A road map to vocational education and training in industrialized countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the silver bullet for the youth joblessness problem is viewed as the VET, which is the silver-bullet solution for the problem of youth unemployment in the US.
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Reforming German Labour Market Institutions: A Dual Path to Flexibility
Werner Eichhorst,Paul Marx +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the growing availability of non-standard work increases pressure on core workers to accept more flexibility and that insiders reacted with wage moderation and other instruments, thus strengthening their competitiveness relative to flexible workers.
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Activation Policies in Germany: From Status Protection to Basic Income Support
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labor market and social policy in Germany and analyzes the implications of this change for the political economy, the governance and the legal structure of a "Bismarckian" welfare state.