For example, standards are set by

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UN Expert Group Meeting on Full Employment and
Decent Work Arnold Hemmann

• For example, standards are set by
• legislation and institutional framework
  conditions
• dialogue, mutual learning and coordination
• European Lisbon Strategy
• Objective more and better jobs
• Management by integrated guidelines
• Broad economic guidelines
• Employment policy guidelines
• Triad of economic policy, employment and social
  cohesion

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UN Expert Group Meeting on Full Employment and
Decent Work Arnold Hemmann

• European Employment Strategy
• EU-wide framework of standards with
  implementation
• requirement and outcome monitoring
• Objectives
• Full employment
• Enhancement of quality and productivity at work
• Strengthening of social and territorial cohesion

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UN Expert Group Meeting on Full Employment and
Decent Work Arnold Hemmann

• Coordination mechanisms of the European
• Employment Strategy
• Employment Guidelines
• National Reform Programmes
• EU Employment Report
• Country-specific Recommendations

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UN Expert Group Meeting on Full Employment and
Decent Work Arnold Hemmann

• Structural characteristics
• Management by objectives
• Monitoring
• Comprehensive approach
• Coordination
• Mutual learning

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UN Expert Group Meeting on Full Employment and
Decent Work Arnold Hemmann

• The objectives of the European Employment
• Strategy include i.a.
• Increase of womens employment
• Reduction of wage gaps between men and women
• Provision of childcare facilities
• These three objectives
• are strategically linked
• promote employment and equal opportunities

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UN Expert Group Meeting on Full Employment and
Decent Work Arnold Hemmann

• In Germany, implementation by
• multidimensional approach such as
• involvement of companies
• active equal opportunities policy
• expansion of childcare facilities
• increase of the share of women in forward looking
  an promising occupations
• possibilities to return after periods of leave

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Guidelines for the employment policiesof the
Member States

• Guidelines 17
• Objectives
• full employment
• improving quality and productivity at work
• social and territorial cohesion
• Guidelines 18
• life-cycle (measures for young and eldery people
  labour participation of women)
• Guidelines 19
• inclusive labour markets
• work attractiveness for job-seekers
• Guidelines 20
• matching of labour market needs

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Guidelines for the employment policiesof the
Member States

• Guidelines 21
• flexibility and employment security
• reduce labour market segmentation
• role of social partners
• Guidelines 22
• labour cost and wage-setting mechanisms
• Guidelines 23
• investment in human capital
• Guidelines 24
• education and training systems for new competence
  requirements

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EU - Benchmarks

• every unemployed person is offered a new start in
  the form of training, retraining, work
  practice(youth within 6 months adult within
  12 months)
• 25 of long-term unemployment in active measures
  by 2010
• job-seekers are able to consult all job vacancies
• an increase by 5 years of the effective average
  exit agefrom the labour market by 2010

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EU - Benchmarks

• provision of childcare at least 90 of children
  between 3 and mandatory school and 33 under 3
  years by 2010
• EU average less than 10 early school leavers
• 85 of 22-year-olds should have completed upper
  secondary education by 2010
• participation in lifelong learning should be at
  least 12.5 of the adults working-age population
  (EU average)