employment options in critical events over the life course - are an essential ingredient of modern full employment strategies …. After assessing the European Employment Strategy, this book offers a detailed comparative analysis of employment performance … for selected European member states and the United States. It suggests that successful employment systems arise from a new …

1. Ageing and employment in Japan -- 2. Factors affecting labor force participation in Japan : empirical study of labor …

analyses how employment levels and real wages are affected by international trade. Popular trade theory disregards the impact … of free trade on the rate of unemployment, since it assumes full employment at the outset. By focusing on the …

between technological change and employment in all its dimensions, focusing on contemporary economies in Europe. The authors … discuss patterns of growth, and the type of employment that countries might expect to be created following the introduction of …

The impact of technical change on employment is investigated in this important new book which offers a critical … Employment addresses the impact of technical change on employment from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. After an … results are combined to demonstrate that the employment impact of labour saving technologies can only be partially counter …

high standards of income and employment security. Special interest is devoted to the way in which countries opt for …-standard employment -- pt. 3. 'Best policy practices' in Australia, Canada and Denmark …

pt. 1. Incentives to work -- pt. 2. Factors affecting labour force participation -- pt. 3. New forms of employment …

The debate on whether high standards of labour market legislation affect economic growth and the rate of employment is … so well prior to 1996, maintaining full employment for the last 40 years, regardless of the rapid change of industrial …

preventing the development of social exclusion from paid employment … regulating and new practices -- 6. Flexibility in the Spanish labour market : working-time and temporary employment -- 7. Working …