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Product Description: European labour markets have seen the simultaneous rise of unemployment and working-time flexibility. While unemployment generates widespread concern about social exclusion, the reorganization of flexible working-time has been greeted with more ambivalence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The framework of this book is the structural mass unemployment and social marginalisation that have haunted Europe since the 1970s. It focuses on the transformation of our interpretative frameworks and how societies have tried to come to terms with this development.

Product Description: The framework of this book is the structural mass unemployment and social marginalisation that have haunted Europe since the 1970s. Unlike so many previous studies, however, this book does not concentrate on the causes that led to this situation, but focuses on the transformation of our interpretative frameworks and how societies have tried to come to terms with this development...read more

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Product Description: This second CEPS annual addresses the crucial problem of persistent high unemployment in Europe, despite recent years of economic recovery. Recurring themes in the discussion of possible solutions are the relative importance of aggregate demand, labor-market flexibility, capital formation, and the organization of work-time in order to achieve work-sharing...read more