Labour Market Inequalities: Problems and Policies of Low-Wage Employment in International Perspective / Edition 1

by Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda, Stephen Bazen

Overview

Contributions to this volume review, in international perspective, the "European social model" of collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment rights, and social welfare support, which is seen as both cause and cure for joblessness and low-wage employment in Europe. They find that collective bargaining and minimum wages protect vulnerable workers, while wage flexibility is not economically effective in creating jobs for the low-skilled.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199241699
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/28/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

University of Oxford

University of Amsterdam

University Montesquieu Bordeaux IV

Table of Contents

Introduction, Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda, and Stephen Bazen1. Wage inequalities and low pay: the role of labour market institutions, Claudio Lucifora2. Employment inequalities, Andrew Glyn and Wiemer Salverda3. Low pay - a special affliction of women, Rita Asplund and Inga Persson4. Earnings mobility of the low-paid, Peter Sloane and Ioannis Theodossiou5. Low pay and household poverty, Brian Nolan and Ive Marx6. Minimum wages and low-wage employment, Stephen Bazen7. The French experience of youth employment programmes and payroll tax exemptions, Francis Kramarz8. Low-wage services: interpreting the US-German difference, Richard Freeman and Ronald Schettkat9. The downside of trade or technological change? Explaining the deteriorating employment and wage position of the low-skilled, Mary Gregory and Stephen Machin10. Skills and low pay: upgrading or over-education?, Lex Borghans and Andries de Grip