Transformation of the Employment Structure in the EU and USA, 1995-2007

This collection describes the changing structure of employment during the period of robust employment expansion that preceded the credit crunch and features contributions from a team of leading labour market researchers from Europe and the United States.

Autorentext
JOSÉ-IGNACIO ANTÓN Lecturer of Economics at the University of Salamanca, Spain RACHEL DWYER Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University, USA HUGO FIGUEIREDO Lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SACSJP) of the University of Aveiro, Portugal DAMIAN GRIMSHAW Professor of Employment Studies and Director of the European Work and Employment Research Centre (EWERC) at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK JEAN-MARIE JUNGBLUT Research Officer in the Employment and Competitiveness Unit of Eurofound, Dublin, Ireland RAFAEL MUÑOZ DE BUSTILLO Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Salamanca, Spain PHILIP O'CONNELL Programme Coordinator of Labour Market Research at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland AGOTA SCHARLE Co-Founder and Senior Research Partner of the Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis, Hungary ROBERT STEHRER Deputy Director of Research at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Austria TERRY WARD was a Senior Research Officer in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK ERIK OLIN WRIGHT Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, USA

Inhalt
List of Tables List of Figures Foreword/Introduction; D.Storrie Methodology; E.Fernandez-Macias, T.Ward & R.Stehrer Patterns of Employment Expansion in Europe 1995-2007; E.Fernández-Macías Patterns of Job Change and Job Concentration in the US and Europe, 1995-2007: An Exploratory Analysis; R.Dwyer & E.Wright Women's Changing Job Structure in Europe: Patterns of Job Concentration, Low Pay and Welfare Employment; D.Grimshaw & H.Figueiredo Immigration and Labour Market Segmentation in Europe; R.Munoz de Bustillo & J.Anton Assessing Recent Employment Shifts in Europe Using a Multidimensional Job Quality Indicator; J.Hurley, E.Fernandez Macias & R.Munoz de Bustillo Job Quality Developments in Post-Socialist Accession Countries; A.Scharle The Institutional Context of Skills-wages Mismatches; J.Jungblut & P.O'Connell The Impact of Recessions on Labour Market Structure; T.Ward, R.Stehrer, J.Hurley & D.Storrie Bibliography Index