Verlagsinfo: This major new Handbook is a detailed, up-to-date guide to different national labour markets and policies to combat unemployment and their outcomes. It will become established as a standard reference book – the first of its kind – providing an authoritative account of the...

pt. 1. Methodology of labour market policy evaluation -- pt. 2. Evaluating labour market policies in selected target areas -- pt. 3. Evaluating institutional frameworks of labour market policy -- pt. 4. Evaluating policy targets at the European level

We analyze the consequences of political polarization between domestic policymakers for international policy cooperation. Coordination of policies is preferred compared to non-coordination even under polarization if it allows policymakers to constrain the policy choice of policymakers with...