Series foreword / by Eduardo Salas -- Preface -- List of figures -- List of tables -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Overview -- An introduction to facing the challenges of a multi-age workforce : a use-inspired approach / Lisa Finkelstein, Donald Truxillo,...

The dilemmas of labour market regulation / Marino Regini -- The dynamics of labour market reform in European countries / Manuela Samek Lodovici -- Who is harmed by labour market regulations? Quantitative evidence ; Regulation and context: reconsidering the correlates of unemployment / G(c)ısta...

With much of Europe plagued by high levels of unemployment, it has become widely accepted that the culprit is labor market rigidity and that the prescription can only be labor market deregulation: lower wages, higher earnings inequality, greater decentralization in bargaining, less generous...