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The pressures facing labour markets in different European countries are broadly similar. Post-industrialism leads to less stable economic growth and confronts individuals with greater uncertainty in their employment. More vulnerable groups in particular find it less easy to enter or remain in paid work. Many countries are experiencing ‘jobless growth’ and structural unemployment (Sarfati and Bonoli, 2002).
I would like to thank Benoît Gay-des-Combes, University of Fribourg, and August Österle, University of Vienna, for some helpful comments on an early draft of this chapter.
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Kananen, J. (2005). Current Employment Policy Paradigms in the UK, Sweden and Germany. In: Taylor-Gooby, P. (eds) Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286016_7
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