This volume brings together theoretical, empirical and comparative accounts of the European Social Model and transitional labour market policy. It is divided into four sections. Section one, 'Transitional Labour Markets and the European Social Model', contains theoretical accounts of the ESM and a discussion of policy implications for European social and employment policies that derive from research on transitional labour markets. Section two 'The European Employment Strategy and Transitional Labour Markets', is devoted to an economic as well as legal assessment of the European Employment...