JOSÉ-IGNACIO ANTÓN Lecturer of Economics at the University of Salamanca, Spain RACHEL DWYER Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University, USA HUGO FIGUEIREDO Lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SACSJP) of the University of Aveiro, Portugal DAMIAN GRIMSHAW Professor of Employment Studies and Director of the European Work and Employment Research Centre (EWERC) at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK JEAN-MARIE JUNGBLUT Research Officer in the Employment and Competitiveness Unit of Eurofound, Dublin, Ireland RAFAEL MUÑOZ DE BUSTILLO Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Salamanca, Spain PHILIP O'CONNELL Programme Coordinator of Labour Market Research at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland AGOTA SCHARLE Co-Founder and Senior Research Partner of the Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis, Hungary ROBERT STEHRER Deputy Director of Research at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Austria TERRY WARD was a Senior Research Officer in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK ERIK OLIN WRIGHT Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, USA