This collection of essays highlights the most likely trends in employment across Europe over the next 10 years, and finds out how experts think policymakers, firms and individuals should respond. The first set of essays examines the changing nature of Europe’s labour market; the authors in this section analyse how globalisation and technological change in particular are likely to affect the demand for skills over the next decade. The second set of essays looks to Germany for lessons that can be taken from its past reforms. The third section focusses on the likely effects of technological change, which it is generally agreed is driving the biggest changes in labour markets, and on the most appropriate policy responses. Then, in a final essay, the results of a survey of over 2,500 companies across five European countries are presented, which provide some interesting findings on the skills employees are using, polarisation on a sectoral level, and how firms are responding by increasing or cutting staff numbers.