Objective The object of the program is to understand the forces behind the continuing high levels of European unemployment. The program focusses on four main issues: (i) Skill and regional mismatch in the labour market; it is largely due to technological change and how important are market failures in explaining the continued existence of such mismatch? (ii) Wage determination; can "insider-outsider" theories help explain the coexistence of high levels of wage pressure and high unemployment? (iii) Long-term unemployment; how does a person's unemployment experience affect his/her chance of finding a job and how is this affected by the benefit system? (iv) Demographics; how will the prospective reduction in labour force growth and increased longevity of the population affect the labour market? The focus will be mainly, but not exclusively, on microeconomics data sets. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsmicroeconomicssocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemploymentsocial sciencessociologysocial issuesunemployment Programme(s) FP2-SPES - European stimulation plan (EEC) for economic science (SPES), 1989-1992 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator London School of Economics and Political Science EU contribution No data Address Houghton Street WC2A 2AE London United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all TILBURG UNIVERSITY Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Warandelaan 2 5000 TILBURG See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART Germany EU contribution No data Address Keplerstrasse 7 70174 STUTTGART See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN Belgium EU contribution No data Address Place De L'Universite 1 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS Denmark EU contribution No data Address 1,Nordre Ringgade 1-3 8000 AARHUS C See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF ROME "LA SAPIENZA" Italy EU contribution No data Address Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 00185 ROMA See on map Total cost No data