The article explores the new policy frameworks for learning and skills formation in Germany, Norway and Spain. It asks whether a new type of regulation for training is emerging, and how employers and trade unions engage with such developments. It ends arguing that there are competing dynamics, strategic directions and actor-related issues within these new departures in industrial relations. KEYWORDS: lifelong learning ■ skills ■ social partners ■ supply-side corporatism
The customer waiting time distribution is derived for an S − 1, S continuous review inventory system experiencing Poisson demands and general independent identically distributed lead times. The analysis uses results from the infinite server Poisson queue. Some comparisons are made with an approximation to the waiting time distribution due to Higa et al.
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