Working through Barriers deals with the role host countries’ institutional characteristics play in the labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union. Drawing on existing research it develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of factors (and underlying mechanisms) affecting...

In our era of "shareholder value", news of redundancies in leading global companies is good news for the stock market. The coincidence of this kind of news with growing unemployment creates the impression of a direct and simple relationship between the two developments. In this paper, we use...