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

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Donald Storrie, John Hurley, Enrique Fernández-Macías

   Pages 1-15

3. Methodology

   • Enrique Fernández-Macías, Terry Ward, Robert Stehrer

   Pages 16-25

4. Patterns of Employment Expansion in Europe, 1995–2007

   • Enrique Fernández-Macías

   Pages 26-51

5. Job Growth and Job Polarization in the United States and Europe, 1995–2007

   • Rachel E. Dwyer, Erik Olin Wright

   Pages 52-74

6. Women’s Changing Job Structure in Europe: Patterns of Job Concentration, Low Pay and Welfare State Employment

   • Damian Grimshaw, Hugo Figueiredo

   Pages 75-110

7. Immigration and Labour Market Segmentation in the European Union

   • Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, José-Ignacio Antón

   Pages 111-146

8. Assessing Recent Employment Shifts in Europe Using a Multidimensional Job Quality Indicator

   • John Hurley, Enrique Fernández-Macías, Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo

   Pages 147-179

9. Job Quality in Post-Socialist Accession Countries

   • Ágota Scharle

   Pages 180-200

10. The Institutional Context of Skills-Wages Mismatches

    • Jean-Marie Jungblut, Philip O’Connell

    Pages 201-243

11. The Changing Structure of Employment during Periods of Recession and Recovery in the EU

    • Donald Storrie, Terry Ward, Robert Stehrer, John Hurley

    Pages 244-278

12. Back Matter

    Pages 279-300

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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.

• employment
• European Union (EU)
• Expansion
• immigration
• Institution
• labor market
• labour market
• market research
• methodology
• migration
• Mismatches
• transformation

• University of Salamanca, Spain

  Enrique Fernández-Macías

• European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, Ireland

  John Hurley, Donald Storrie

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

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