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Can more and better jobs for all be created without increasing levels of inequality? Can more flexible labour markets be created while maintaining - or even enhancing - the job and employment security of workers? Can private providers deliver better and cheaper services than the former public employment service, and what are the implications of these new quasi-markets for employment services? Is life-long learning and the knowledge economy the solution in an age of globalisation and outsourcing of low-skilled and low-wage jobs? Will national governments - and not least the European Union - deliver on its promises? We approach these questions from an inter-disciplinary and comparative perspective by focusing on four main themes:

• The European employment strategy and activation policies

• Contracting out of public employment services

• Employment policy from a flexicurity perspective

• Life-long learning

The book brings together a group of well-known researchers, including researchers from the ETUI-REHS, from a range of different disciplines and compares employment policies of different countries. In bringing together state-of-the-art research on employment policies - and especially the new trends of flexicurity and contracting out - the book will appeal to both academics, policy makers and civil servants interested employment policy.

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