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The Qualitative Reports of the Labour Market Policy (LMP) database give a succinct description of each one of the labour market policy measures included in the database. All reports - one for each country - have the same structure: Part A includes the Inventory of measures, i.e. the list of all measures regrouped by category. Part B presents each measure in three main sections: Identification, Description, and Supplementary information. The three sections contain the most relevant information concerning each measure. The Descriptions contain seven sub-sections: Aim, Beneficiaries, Action/Instrument, Financing/Support, Eligibility, Legal basis, and Recent changes. The Supplementary Information contains information concerning the target groups, the conditions for participation and other characteristics of the measure. The qualitative reports allow the user to understand what hides behind the figures on expenditure and participants collected in the LMP database, and therefore should be considered as complementary information to the publication 'Labour Market Policy - Expenditure and Participants - Detailed Tables'. [Eurostat]

Structural VARs have been extensively used in empirical macroeconomics during the last two decades, particularly in analyses of monetary policy. Existing Bayesian procedures for structural VARs are at best confined to a severly limited handling of cointegration restrictions. This paper extends the Bayesian analysis of structural VARs to cover cointegrated processes with an arbitrary number of cointegrating relations and general linear restrictions on the cointegration space. A reference prior distribution with an optional small open economy effect is proposed and a Gibbs sampler is derived for a straightforward evaluation of the posterior distribution. The methods are used to analyze the effects of monetary policy in Sweden. [Mattias Villani, Anders Warne]

One of the principal benefits of fisheries is the socio-economic impact on jobs and incomes, not just in fishing, but also in up- and down stream activities. The fishery sector is subject to competitive pressures which impact on labour, as do regulatory requirements and resource and capacity management measures. In the European Union, as elsewhere, fisheries-related employment frequently falls in areas which have few other alternative economic activities and these impacts can have a disproportionately negative effect on living conditions. Present policy within the European Union is to compensate for these negative effects, and to provide support for alternative employment through investments in job creation and training programmes. It is vital that the areas whose local economies are the most dependent upon the fishery sector are identified in order that efforts to reduce the negative impact of the fleet reductions can be targeted effectively. [Author s. copyright]

1 Introduction
2 Methodology
3 Task 1: brief analysis of fishing and related activities in the EU
4 Task 2: quantifying, describing and examining the level of dependency
5 Task 3: examination of the development of employment and dependency since 1990
6 Task 4: forward study of trends in employment
7 Task 4: suggestions for improved socio-economic support measures
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The Foundation is working on sustainable childcare services currently available for school-age children in the 25 Member States of the European Union (EU25). The study aims to support the debate on modernisation of care systems in Europe, to review existing information on childcare services and pinpoint gaps in the level of service in the enlarged EU, and to identify measures at national, regional and local levels to create sustainable childcare services for school-age children. This report, on Sweden, is one of six in-depth country studies that have been conducted in order to complement the more general review of childcare systems in the EU25. [Author vide Copyright]

Die klassische verfassungsrechtliche und politikwissenschaftliche Teilung zwischen gesetzgebender und ausführender Gewalt lässt sich nach Auffassung der empirischen Politikforschung in dieser Reinheit nicht aufrechterhalten, auch wenn sie nach wie vor eine wichtige Säule des gegenwärtigen demokratieverständnisses darstellt. Insbesondere in der politiknahen Ministerialbürokratie sind planende und beratende, somit politische Aufgaben eng mit ausführenden und umsetzenden Tätigkeiten verknüpft... [Europäisches Parlament]

14. Country Profile: Sweden
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Background information on Sweden
14.2.1.Trends in the number of applicants
14.2.2.Number of asylum statuses granted
14.2.3.Main countries of origin
14.2.4.Types of statuses granted
14.2.5.Costs
14.3. Organisation of the asylum procedure
14.3.1.Co-ordination
14.4. Legal basis
14.4.1.Main Changes
14.4.2.Anticipated Changes
14.5. Arrangements immediately upon arrival
14.6. Accommodation
Names and addresses of reception and accommodation centres
Special treatment
Standard and facilities of reception and accommodation centres
14.7. Means of subsistence
14.8. Access to education
14.8.1.Anticipated changes
14.9. Access to the labour market
14.10. Access to health care
14.11. Rules on detention and restrictions on free movement
14.12. Differences in treatment according to the stage of the asylum procedure and the type of status sought
14.13. Political atmosphere surrounding refugees and immigrants
14.13.1. The public debate
14.13.2. The political debate
14.13.3. International cooperation