The paper is concerned with a better understanding of the job insecurity and labour market uncertainty youngsters confront on the labour market in Europe shortly before and during the Great Recession. The main thrust of the paper is to explore youth insecurity and uncertainty in notably the...

A plethora of studies raised concerns about the rising inequality on the labour market since the mid 1980s and especially also during the current crisis. In this paper we examine how low-skilled young men and women of 16 to 35 years of age fare with respect to their income and employment...

The paper concerns the definition and testing of flexicurity indicators for the public sector in Europe and in particular the public administration sector. The main aim is to elaborate a methodology based on static and dynamic institutional and outcome indicators to assess how well the public...

The Easterlin paradox, which posits that money does not buy happiness since wealthier nations are not better off in terms of subjective well-being than less wealthy nations, is challenged in a seminal study of Stevensson and Wolfers (2008). In the first part of the paper we replicate their...

Empirical studies have shown that voluntary job-to-job changes have a positive effect on wage mobility. In this paper, we suggest that the impact of a job change on wage growth depends on the position in the wage distribution. Using panel data from the UK and Germany, we investigate the effect...

This paper uses the European Community Household Panel study (ECHP) to profile labour market experiences in the European Union. Cross-sectional snapshots of labour markets miss out on part of the range of transitions between employment and non-employment. Panel data allows a more accurate...

Panel and life-course data are ideally suited to unraveling labor market dynamics, but their designs differ, with potential consequences for the estimated relationships. To gauge the extent to which these two data designs produce dissimilar transition rates and the causation thereof, we use the...

The increasing availability of longitudinal data on income in Europe greatly facilitates the analysis of income and poverty dynamics. In this paper, the results of longitudinal data- analyses on income and poverty in three European welfare states are reported. Using panel data for Germany, the...

Using longitudinal information on labour market participation we analyze the dynamics of unemployment in Europe. We focus in particular on individuals with a poor attachment to the labour market. The countries under scrutiny are clustered into four ideal-typical welfare regimes. Overall, a...