Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies

Edited by Daniel Clegg, Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Niccolo Durazzi, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy of Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK

Bringing together contributions from leading labour market policy scholars from across the globe, this state-of-the-art Handbook offers extensive and compelling analyses of labour market policy in advanced democracies.

This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

‘This new Handbook is an impressive volume that brings together leading scholars in labour market policy research. It not only provides a fresh view on long-debated topics in labour market policy design and implementation, but it also widens the perspective to include new topics, updated comparative evidence and political economy issues. Everyone interested in learning about contemporary labour market policies from different angles should have a look at this book.’
– Werner Eichhorst, Institute of Labour Economics, Germany

‘Deindustrialisation, globalisation and automation all contribute to the tremendous complexity of labour markets in the 21st century, even as countries struggle to provide jobs for all or most citizens. This superb and comprehensive collection of essays sheds light on the many ways that capitalist democracies struggle to sustain growth and solidarity in our age of underemployment.’
– Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University, US

‘This is an extraordinary collection. The editors and their collaborators have managed to produce not just a survey of labour market policy, but a comparative political economic study of developed nations that is empirically rich, thematically exhaustive and theoretically sophisticated. The value of this volume cannot be overstated.’
Denv -马丁•罗兹大学er, US