Edited by Jacqueline O'Reilly, Full Professor, University of Sussex Business School, UK, Janine Leschke, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Renate Ortlieb, Professor of Human Resource Management, University of Graz, Austria, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Politics, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, and Paola Villa, Full Professor of Applied Economics, University of Trento, Italy

Jacqueline O'Reilly, DPhil, is Professor at the University of Sussex Business School, UK; Chair of the Editorial Board for Work, Employment and Society; and member of the Executive Council of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.

Janine Leschke, PhD, is Professor with special responsibilities at the Department of International Economics, Government and Business at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Renate Ortlieb, PhD, is Professor of Human Resource Management and Head of the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Graz, Austria. She is Editor-in-Chief of the German Journal of Human Resource Management.

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, PhD, is Professor of Comparative Public Policy in the Institute of Political Science at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.

Paola Villa, PhD, is Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Trento, Italy.

Mehtap Akgüç
Miroslav Beblavý
Adele Bergin
Gabriella Berloffa
Werner Eichhorst
Marianna Filandri
Mairéad Finn
Vladislav Flek
Maria González Menéndez
Raffaele Grotti
Kari P. Hadjivassiliou
Gábor Hajdu
Martin Hála
Janine Leschke
Massimiliano Mascherini
Jaan Masso
Eleonora Matteazzi
Gabriele Mazzolini
Fernanda Mazzotta
Seamus McGuinness
Márton Medgyesi
Lucia Mýtna Kureková
Martina Mysíková
Ildikó Nagy
Tiziana Nazio
Jacqueline O'Reilly
Renate Ortlieb
Lavinia Parisi
Maria Petmesidou
Helen Russell
Alina Sandor
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
Maura Sheehan
Endre Sik
Mark Smith
Thees Spreckelsen
Arianna Tassinari
Maryna Tverdostup
Kurt Vandaele
Paola Villa
Silvana Weiss
Adele Whelan
Florian Wozny
Zuzana Zilincíková
Carolina V. Zuccotti

"This is a timely volume taking seriously the wider perspectives of youth labor: it is not only the problem of unemployment, it is the life course perspective; it is not only the problem of education, it is the effective demand perspective; it is not only economic production, but also the social reproduction perspective that policymakers have to simultaneously consider in their endeavor to navigate all youth into good labor market transitions. If you share this view, dig deep into this highly professional volume and you will come out with richer insights. If you are skeptic, dig even deeper to sharpen your critical mind." - Günther Schmid, Emeritus Director, Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB); former Professor of Political Economy, Freie Universität Berlin

"Liberalization of labor markets and welfare protections, exacerbated by the economic crisis of 2008-9, has created difficulties especially for youth as they seek to transition to employment and adulthood. This impressive volume assembles a wealth of quantitative and qualitative information on the experiences of European countries in coping with these difficulties, and assesses how the dynamics of labor markets generate differences in youth transitions by gender, ethnicity, migration, and family structures. The valuable chapters in this volume make essential reading for social scientists as well as policymakers concerned with this central social and economic problem of our time." - Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"This book presents and integrates a huge volume of new research analyzing the lives of young people entering labor markets in Europe. The role of families, employers, migration, economic crises, and regional differences in shaping transitions into and out of employment are examined with the highest quality of writing and scholarship. This tome is far more than a collection of excellent chapters; it provides the most comprehensive guide yet to the individual and societal effects of youth labor markets, and should be read by all researchers and policymakers who care about these things." - Brendan Burchell, Reader in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge