Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introducing Innovative Employment Initiatives Overview and Outlook -- Market Governance and Macroeconomic Management in Employment Policies -- Substitutabilities vs. Complementarities between Structural and Macroeconomic Policies -- Employment Generation and Unemployment Strategies in Europe and the United States -- The Divergence in Employment and Income Distribution in the EU and the U.S. -- Cutting Welfare While Expanding Work Subsidies: The Odd Twist in American Welfare Reform -- Advanced and Transitional European Political Economies -- The Political Economy of a Consensus Society. Experience from behind the Dykes -- Generating Employment in Economies of Transition. The Case of Slovenia -- Reorganizing Flexible Labour Markets -- Innovative Employment Initiatives: Some Thoughts on the Flexibility of the Wage Bargaining Process -- Transitional Labour Markets. A New European Employment Strategy -- Reducing Unemployment by Increasing Employability - or by Reducing Working Time? -- Clues to Overcoming Unemployment -- The Reduction of Working Time, Pay and Employment -- The Policy of Employment Creation and Working Time Reduction of the New French Government -- Designing Market Incentives vs. Distributing Benefits in Creating New Employment Opportunities -- Creating Employment Incentives -- Gendered Job Generation and Unequal Opportunities -- Innovative Employment Initiatives and Equal Opportunities -- Demographic Changes and Employment Opportunities -- Demographic Shifts, Fiscal Pressures and Long-term Employment Opportunities -- Annexes -- Annex I: Benchmarking -- Benchmarks: Employment Indicators for Policy-Makers. -- Annex II: Coping with Youth Unemployment -- Youth Unemployment - Recent Innovative Initiatives in Selected European Union Countries