European unification represents major challenges to national institutional frameworks as well as significant pressures for institutional convergence. So far, labor markets have actually seen relatively little convergence, and national institutions have remained highly distinct. Against this background, the book provides an encompassing comparative analysis of school-to-work transitions in EU member states. It shows how differences in both European education and training systems, as well as labour market institutions, generated significant variation in the experiences of young people entering...
European unification represents major challenges to national institutional frameworks as well as significant pressures for institutional convergence. ...
In writing this book, I increasingly became aware of the extent to which much of the finest social science research has been devoted to the issue of unemployment. Unemployment rightly is a key issue in the social sciences for search of social and political answers to the economic, social and psychological distress caused by un certainty and macroeconomic change. I was glad to find my own worries shared by eminent and respected scholars: George Akerlof once confessed to pursue the study of unemployment ultimately because of his father's distress from fear of un employment, and Wout Ultee...
In writing this book, I increasingly became aware of the extent to which much of the finest social science research has been devoted to the issue of u...
