Female labour force participation is known to depend on the economic status of a partner. Since the current crisis hit more men, it might push more women to enter the labour market (added worker effect). On the opposite, the crisis might produce a discouraged worker effect. In this case, despite...

Most papers dealing with individual overeducation risks focus on labour supply characteristics and workers behaviour. On the other hand, only few studies consider labour demand characteristics and technological change. In this paper we analyse the influence of both demand and supply factors on...

According to theoretical and empirical evidence young workers are more likely to be overeducated than adult ones, especially in countries where the educational attainments of young people grow quickly and the school-to-work transition is difficult and/or lengthy. Nonetheless, if overeducation...

In recent years there has been a resurge of interest in young people's employment problems, the focus of labour economists and sociologists during the Seventies and Eighties, also covering countries with apparently good employment situations (such as Sweden, Germany and United Kingdom). This...

The paper presents some significant results of the YOUTH project (Young in Occupations and Unemployment: Thinking of their better integration in the labour market), promoted by the European Commission - DG Employment. The paper assumes that flexicurity is very important for young workers,...