This paper builds on the recent literature on the importance of occupational and industry experience on wages and extends Kambourov and Manovskii's (2002) study using British data. Occupational experience is estimated to make a significant contribution to wage growth, while the evidence on...

The recent labour market trends reveal an increase of job insecurity across Europe, with more short-term jobs currently available in the labour market, and lengthier spells of joblessness. The need on behalf of individuals to seek for alternative ways of ensuring employment security and a...

This paper provides a first assessment of the fiscal and distributional consequences of the ongoing structural changes in the labour markets of EU Member States, mostly driven by technological progress and ageing. Cedefop 2020 Skill forecasts, EUROSTAT population projections and the forecast on...

The deterioration of employment conditions for an increasing number of employees in late capitalism has prompted researchers to find ways to conceptualise, as well as measure, these observed new tendencies.This book examines precarious employment in Europe through the economic crisis, drawing on...

This book examinesprecarious employment in Europe through the economic crisis. It draws on twomain sources: theories of how the financial and debt crisis coupled with labourmarket reforms to exacerbate precarity in the workforce; and data from the EuropeanLabour Force Survey from 2005-12,...