Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...

Acknowledgements -- Foreword looking back in order to look forward / Ken Roberts -- Understanding the changing youth labour market -- From the "golden age" to neo-liberalism -- The great transformation and the punitive turn -- Towards a new normality : work and unemployment in contemporary...