The theme for this year conference is about labour market reforms with a particular emphasis on successful practices implemented in European countries. The Great Recession has destroyed jobs around the world, but has hit more strongly the younger workers: who were the first to exit and are now...

The Summer School will bring together former and current GLU students, as well as professors and trade union experts from the GLU network. The Summer School is intended to strengthen the network links between former GLU students and to explore possibilities for future research collaboration.

The 2014 conference of the GLU focuses on the causes and effects of increases in economic inequality – and what can be done to prevent or reverse them. We encourage the submission of papers mapping the extent and dynamics of inequality, analysing its causes and effects, conceptualising...