This paper surveys some of the key themes in European agricultural policy research in recent decades. It identifies three main drivers of this research: a gradual broadening of the scope of the discipline in response to changing political priorities and values; an enlarged toolbox of policy...

"In the transformation countries of eastern central Europe, eastern Germany, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, the political and economic process of reform is well advanced. Eastern Germany is, as a result of the reunification, already fully integrated into the European Union,...

This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...