Vol. 7 No. 1, March 2011

Index

• Introduction: European labour market policies after the Lisbon process--results and consequences.
• The European Employment Strategy: assessing the status quo.
• What difference does it make? The outcome effects of the European Employment Strategy on the transition from education to work.
• Incoherent strategies - fragmented outcomes: raising women's employment rate in Germany.
• The transition from work to retirement.
• Transition from unemployment to work and the role of active labour market policies during the Lisbon Strategy period and the economic crisis.
• Non-standard employment in Europe: its development and consequences for the European Employment Strategy.
• Labour market politics through jurisprudence: the influence of the judgements of the European Court of Justice (Viking, Laval, Ruffert, Luxembourg) on labour market policies.