since the 1980s as well as recent comparative case studies of engineers and nurses. A primary focus is on issues of job … economies. Professional employees in particular are found to face declining job control, diminishing use of their skills and …

still relevant in explaining common patterns among CEE countries and concludes that increasing the stock of skills … accumulated by the employed and improving utilisation of these skills seems to be the first-best solution to increase labour … utilisation. The book will be of interest to postgraduate researchers and academics in the fields of labour economics, regional …