Overview
- Provides empirical evidence focusing on recent labour market data
- Special emphasis on the recent EU definition of social exclusion
- Helps policy makers in designing policies for disadvantaged workers
- Includes intriguing results on the impact of the current economic crisis on the labour market for disadvantaged workers
Part of the book series: AIEL Series in Labour Economics (AIEL)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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People with disabilities in the Labour Market
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Young Workers in the Labour Market
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Women, Migrants and Long-Term Unemployed
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Miguel Á. Malo is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Salamanca (Spain). He has been a visiting scholar at UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK), European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (University of Essex, UK), National Bureau for Economic Research (USA) and the International Labour Organization (Switzerland). His main research interests are employment policies, labour market segmentation, employment protection legislation and employment of people with disabilities. From 2000 to 2002, he was the Spanish expert about employment of people with disabilities in the corresponding international network created by the European Commission. In 2007, he provided expert advice to the Spanish Ministry of Employment to design a new strategy to promote the employment for people with disabilities. During 2013, he has been on leave working as a Senior Economist at the International Labour Organization.
Dario Sciulli (Ph.D. Tor Vergata University, Rome 2006) is assistant professor of economic policy at the Department of Economic Studies, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He has held visiting positions at the Universidad Carlos III Madrid (Spain), University of York (UK) and VU University Amsterdam (the Netherlands). He has held post-doc positions at the University of the Azores (Portugal) and University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). His research interests include labour economics, child development and later outcomes, economics of disability and policy evaluation. He is a member of the executive committee of AIEL (the Italian Association of Labour Economists).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disadvantaged Workers
Book Subtitle: Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies
Editors: Miguel Ángel Malo, Dario Sciulli
Series Title: AIEL Series in Labour Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04376-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04375-3Published: 07 April 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38124-4Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04376-0Published: 26 March 2014
Series ISSN: 1863-916X
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9340
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 320
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: Labor Economics, Economic Policy, Social Policy