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There are only a few studies on the scale and structure of on-the-job-training for elder employees. This article provides basic results using data of the IAB-Establishment-Panel. In addition to human capital theory we try to explain the firm behaviour considering rational choice theory, which allows non-economic explications. After introducing descriptive statistics, the authors test the assumption whether a positive (negative) attitude towards elderly leads to more (less) training. Results ind…
Die demografische Entwicklung und Verschiebungen in der wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Situierung haben zur Entdeckung der reiferen Erwachsenen als Zielgruppe des betriebswirtschaftliche Produktmarketings geführt. Die Wortschöpfung „50plus“, die in den letzten Jahren von zahlreichen Institutionen und Organisationen auch außerhalb des kommerziellen Bereichs für diese Zielgruppe aufgegriffen wurde, impliziert zugleich eine Festlegung der Eintrittsaltersschwelle für „Ältere“ auf 50 Jahre. Im Gegens…
The European Union has only a subsidiary educational assignment. Hence ist does not astonish that there are no ordinance and guidelines for the educational area to be found in the joint primary law. Certainly there are primary laws coming out from other political fields which are tangent to education. Essentially the European Union helps itself to soft legislative provision such as decisions concerning support programmes, recommendations, statements or communiques. Within the framework of the m…
Models of subject orientated didactics This contribution has a didactic theoretical perspective. Three didactic theoretical concepts (constructivistical, interaction-related and subject-theoretical) are thereupon questioned, how they substantiate and comprehend subject orientation in didactical action. In the centre are questions of the worth of subjective knowledge stocks and the theoretical substantiation of the relation between teachers and learners. After a criticism of the constructivis…
