Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe

Edited by Ramón Gómez-Salvador, Principal Economist, Directorate General Economics, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Ana Lamo, Senior Economist, Directorate General Research, European Central Bank, Germany, Barbara Petrongolo, Lecturer, Department of Economics and Research Associate, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, UK, Melanie Ward, Senior Economist, Directorate General Economics, European Central Bank, Germany and Etienne Wasmer, Sciences Po Paris, France

Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe highlights recent developments in the labour supply in Europe and gives a detailed assessment of their link with economic policies and labour market institutions. Despite major changes in European labour supply during the past few decades, the existing literature still lacks a comprehensive study of the relationship between labour supply and labour market institutions from a macro perspective.

这本书是一个网卡e collection of articles – each contribution followed by the comment for a discussant – that centres on labour supply in Europe. . . the book provides interesting reading, and the editors’ foreword offers a good summary of the contributions of the many authors an, in linking the four parts of the book, helps the reader see them as a whole. . . the book is worth reading. It contains interesting contributions that provide enough food for thought on the many factors that impinge on the decision to participate in the labour force and particularly on those that constrain women’s labour-force involvement.’
– Giovanni Russo, Journal of Income Distribution