In recent decades in each EU member state there is an increasingly strong view that public employment services should play a more active role on labor markets. In response to fundamental changes in economic and social sphere a new set of functions is assumed to them which impose the search and...

This comprehensive and well-written book discusses what has happened in our economy during the past 100 years to shape today's labor market, and how that past will shape the labor market of the future. The book discusses trends through the year 2000, what careers will expand and decline (and how...

To evaluate search effort monitoring of unemployed workers, it is important to take account of post-unemployment wages and job-to-job mobility. We structurally estimate a job search model with endogenous job search effort by the unemployed along various search channels that deals with this. The...