Europe Reforms Labour Markets: - Leaders’ Perspectives -

Focusing on the perspectives of policy-makers, the book’s purpose is to closely examine the factors that make for successful/unsuccessful labor market related policy reforms. The aim is to reveal the political aspects, namely the chances, challenges and impediments to designing labor market reforms and to establish the conditions under which successful labor market reforms can be advocated, adopted and implemented (process).

The work includes exclusive interviews with twelve former European prime ministers about the labour market reforms they initiated in their respective countries:

Wolfgang Schussel

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Andrus Ansip

Francois Fillon

Gerhard Schroeder

Georgios Papandreou

Mario Monti

Jan Peter Balkenende

Jerzy Buzek

Iveta Radicova

Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Tony Blair