| Description |
xvi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda and Stephen Bazen -- 1. Wage Inequalities and Low Pay: The Role of Labour Market Institutions / Claudio Lucifora -- 2. Employment Inequalities / Andrew Glyn and Wiemer Salverda -- 3. Low Pay - A Special Affliction of Women / Rita Asplund and Inga Persson -- 4. Earnings Mobility of the Low Paid / Peter Sloane and Ioannis Theodossiou -- 5. Low Pay and Household Poverty / Brian Nolan and Ive Marx -- 6. Minimum Wages and Low-Wage Employment / Stephen Bazen -- 7. The French Experience of Youth Employment Programmes and Payroll Tax Exemptions / Francis Kramarz -- 8. Low-Wage Services: Interpreting the US-German Difference / Richard B. Freeman and Ronald Schettkat -- 9. Trade or Technological Change? Which is Working against the Low Skilled? / Mary Gregory and Stephen Machin -- 10. Skills and Low Pay: Upgrading or Overeducation? / Lex Borghans and Andries De Grip |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-240) and indexes |
| Subject |
Full employment policies.
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Minimum wage.
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Unskilled labor.
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Wages.
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| Author |
Bazen, Stephen.
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Gregory, Mary (Mary B.)
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Salverda, Wiemer.
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| LC no. |
00044604 |
| ISBN |
0199241694 |
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