Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe highlights recent developments in the labour supply in Europe and gives a detailed assessment of their link with economic policies and labour market institutions. Despite major changes in European labour supply during the past few decades, the existing literature still lacks a comprehensive study of the relationship between labour supply and labour market institutions from a macro perspective. The contributors, themselves from a variety of academic disciplines and backgrounds, consider aspects of labour supply such as incentives to work, determinants of labour force participation and new forms of employment relationships. Each original and specially written chapter has its own discussion chapter to follow it. The book ends with a valuable panel discussion on the topic of labour supply in an enlarged Europe. This book will be read with interest by scholars of economics and labour economics in particular, as well as those researching industrial relations.

Career Switch offers readers a totally new kind of career guidance book; one that readers might compare to having coffee with a good friend. It is aimed at women over thirty-five who have just been laid off, who have spent many years out of the workforce raising kids, who have put aside work they care about in exchange for a steady paycheck, or who just want to do work they don't think of as drudgery. At the very least, this book is certain to give the reader a little thrill at the thought that it's never too late to drop into the kind of career and work she truly cares about. A delightful combination of personal essay and writing exercises, Ward asks of herself and her readers these deceptively simple questions: What will you never tire of? What will you keep doing until the day you die because it's as natural for you as breathing and as joyful as play? Who can you not help but be? What can you not help but do?