We examine job flows in the 1990s for a sample of 13 European countries. By using a dataset of continuing firms that covers all sectors, we find firm characteristics to be important determinants of job flows, with smaller and younger firms within services typically having a larger degree of job...

Labour market risk structures have changed quite dramatically since the early postwar years. Long-term unemployment, low wage employment and the associated problem of the working poor, and clashes between work and family life constitute today the most widespread social risks. They were not well...