Handbook of labour market policy in advanced democracies. By Daniel Clegg, Niccolo Durazzi (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2023

Labour policies represent a crucial institutional arena for economic competitiveness and inclusive labour markets. Comparative research has identified the presence of a variety of labour market policy regimes, each of which with its own capacity, during the transition to a post-industrial economy and knowledge society, to achieve a synergic align- ment of social inclusion and labour market efficiency. In their Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies, Daniel Clegg and Niccolò Durazzi bring together an excellent team of researchers with the aim of critically assessing the state of labour market policies in advanced democracies across the world, and of analysing the differences and similarities in their respective institutional design, as well as traditional and emergent phenomena, and the challenges that lie ahead.