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Contributors

Introduction

Pascal Petit and Luc Soete

PART I LONG-TERM STRUCTURAL CHANGES

1 Long-term structural changes: a reappraisal

Christopher Freeman

2 Technology, growth and employment in postwar Europe: short-run dynamics and long-run patterns

G.N. von Tunzelmann and Ü.D. Efendioglu

3 Europe in the triad: growth pattern and structural changes

Pascal Petit

PART II SECTORAL CHANGES AND DEMAND

4 Structural dynamics and employment in highly industrialized economies

Ronald Schettkat and Giovanni Russo

5 Innovation, demand and employment

Mario Pianta

6 Technical change and employment growth in services: analytical and policy challenges

Pascal Petit and Luc Soete

7 The European unemployment problem: a structural approach

Michael Landesmann and Robert Stehrer

PART III CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION AND DISTRIBUTION

8 New technologies, organizational change and the skill bias: what do we know?

Eve Caroli

9 Unemployment and labour market flexibility: a misplaced question?

Donatella Gatti

10 Sweeping the chimney before kindling the fire as a workable option for employment policy

Adriaan van Zon, Huub Meijers and Joan Muysken

11 Determinants of sectoral average wage and employment growth rates in a specific factors model with production externalities and international capital movements

Ivo De Loo and Thomas Ziesemer

12 Modelling the link between skill biases in technical change and wage divergence through labour market extensions of Krugman's North-South model

Adriaan van Zon, Mark Sanders and Joan Muysken

PART IV INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE

13 Changing working time patterns

Vincenzo Spiezia and Marco Vivarelli

14 Europe's system(s) of innovation

Bruno Amable and Robert Boyer

15 Employment, unemployment and ageing in the West European welfare states

Lars Mjøset

16 Policy conclusions: on the future of European employment

Pascal Petit and Luc Socle

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