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Abstract/Sommario: With contributions from some of Europe's leading scholars, this book explores new developments in the European agenda for globalization, addressing four critical areas: European policies, their adaptation to national diversity in Europe, their implications for the external action of the EU and, finally, their implications for EU governance. This book presents the outcome of an organized dialogue between the political and research communities.

Abstract/Sommario: This volume examines the main transformations in the world of work over the last 20 years in terms of the labour market, social dialogue, conditions of work, wages and income, and looks at how these changes have impacted the middle class. The book issues a warning about the latest trends and presents considerations to policy-makers for ensuring the future of the middle class in Europe.

Abstract/Sommario: Assessing impact is increasingly critical to the survival of services: managers now require comprehensive information about effectiveness, especially in relation to users. Outlining a rigorously tested approach to library evaluation and offering practical tools and highly relevant examples, this book enables LIS managers to get to grips with the slippery concept of service impact and to address their own impact questions in their planning. The 2nd edition is fully updated to include in ...; [Leggi tutto...] Assessing impact is increasingly critical to the survival of services: managers now require comprehensive information about effectiveness, especially in relation to users. Outlining a rigorously tested approach to library evaluation and offering practical tools and highly relevant examples, this book enables LIS managers to get to grips with the slippery concept of service impact and to address their own impact questions in their planning. The 2nd edition is fully updated to include international approaches to qualitative library evaluation, new international research, and current debates on the evolving nature of evaluation, as well as reflections on the importance of involving stakeholders and of evaluation to guide advocacy.

Abstract/Sommario: Individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 are used in this paper to compare the probability that employed and unemployed job seekers find a job, and the quality of the job they find. The job finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed job seekers, and this difference seems to be due to behavioural differences between employed and unemployed job seekers rather than differences in characteristics. Consistent with search theory, the ...; [Leggi tutto...] Individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 are used in this paper to compare the probability that employed and unemployed job seekers find a job, and the quality of the job they find. The job finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed job seekers, and this difference seems to be due to behavioural differences between employed and unemployed job seekers rather than differences in characteristics. Consistent with search theory, the paper finds that employed job seekers are more selective in evaluating job offers; for example, they are less likely to accept low-wage and temporary jobs, or jobs that do not meet their working hour requirements.

Il lavoro utilizza dati per la Gran Bretagna del periodo 1992-2009 per comparare la probabilità che occupati e disoccupati in cerca di lavoro trovino un’occupazione e la qualità del lavoro che trovano. Coerentemente con la teoria alla base della ricerca, scopriamo che le persone in cerca di lavoro ma impiegate sono più selettive nel valutare offerte di lavoro, ad esempio sono meno propense ad accettare bassi salari e posti di lavoro temporanei, o lavori che non soddisfano le loro esigenze in termine di ore lavorative.