Mark P. Taylor is Dean of Warwick Business School, UK, and is a leading international authority in open economy macroeconomics and international finance. Although interested in broad research subjects, he focuses particularly on empirical work on exchange rates. Amongst his many published works are studies on the presence of nonlinearity in real and nominal exchange rate movements, on the long-run behaviour of real exchange rates, on the nature and effectiveness of official foreign exchange market intervention and on the micro-structural effects of European Central Bank interest rate announcements.

• 1. The applied economics of labour: introduction and overview M. P. Taylor 2. The effect of disability on labour market outcomes in Germany M. Lechner and R. Vazquez-Alvarez 3. International differences in the family gap in pay: the role of labour market institutions A. Dupuy and D. Fernandez-Kranz 4. How to quickly get a job? The transition from higher education to French labour market by a survival model C. P. Barros, J. P. Guironnet and N. Peypoch 5. The effect of employment protection and product market regulation on labour market performance: substitution or complementarity? B. Amable, L. Demmou and D. Gatti 6. Labour productivity in Spain: 1977–2002 R. Nicolini 7. Outsourcing, labour productivity and wage inequality in the US: a primal approach A. Chongvilaivan and J. Hur 8. Compression of morbidity and the labour supply of older people L. R. Gordo