ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the different operational definitions of employability and the trends revealed in the interpretation of the concept: the move from static and feebly interactive employability concepts to dynamic, strongly interactive ones. Considering in substance the measures being applied at the turn of the twentieth century to promote employability, one finds that the measures are not, in fact, innovative but have been given a new slant. Labor market policies are indeed well known, timeworn tools. The profiling technique involves establishing at the local level a permanent priority ranking system of potential clients for an active labor market policy, with a view to provide them, in addition to the standard services for the unemployed, with intensive and tailor-made "activation" programs. The chapter examines the sort of interaction and responsibility that should be developed in the labor markets concerning the supply of jobs. It discusses practices such as "workfare," collective bargaining and social partners.
