"This book examines the growth of careers outside a traditional standard employment pattern and how those in "atypical jobs" will fare in retirement, analyzing how the interplay between labor market reforms/trends and pension reforms will affect income security in old age during future decades"--

In Europe, high and persistent unemployment is usually attributed entirely to "labor market rigidity". The only remedy seriously discussed is deregulation of the labor market. This essay argues that there are two further sources of high unemployment in Europe: over-regulation and weakness of...