This bundle contains selected and refereed contributions to the Autumn-conference of the German Association of Political Economy held at Maastricht in 1997. The mainly theoretically oriented papers deal with current issues in the unemployment debate both from a macro- and a micro-economic perspective:

• Macro-economic policies and income inequality, unemployment, inflation and growth
• European welfare states and unemployment
• Labour markets institutions and labour markets performance
• Labour market deregulation and unemployment

The bundle is especially interesting for economists and social scientists working in the field of macro-economics and labour economics and/or being interested in the theoretical underpinning of topical macro-economic and labour market policy.