Minimum Wages, Low Pay and Unemployment

Low-paid employment is a key issue for labour market policy. The essays in this book, focusing on European countries, provide new empirical evidence regarding the impact of minimum wages on employment, earnings mobility among low-paid workers, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution, unemployment traps, the demand for low-skilled workers, and the existence of monopsonistic competition.

Autorentext
LORENZO CAPPELLARI Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy ANNA CRISTINA D'ADDIO University of Aarhus, Belgium AUGSUTIN DE COULON Queen Mary, University of London, UK ISABELLE DE GREEF Université Catholique de ouvain, Belgium INGO GEISHECKER DIW Berlin, Germany RANNIA M. LEONTARIDI University of Aberdeen, UK BENOÎT MAHY Université de Mons-Hainaut DONAL O'NEILL NUI Maynooth, Ireland ISABELLE PAINDAVOINE Université de Mons-Hainaut MICAHEL ROSHOLM Université Catholique de ouvain, Belgium PETER J. SLOANE University of Wales, Swansea, UK BORIS A. ZÜRCHER Swiss State Secretaria for Economic Affairs, Switzerland

Zusammenfassung
The essays in this book, focusing on European countries, provide new empirical evidence regarding the impact of minimum wages on employment, earnings mobility among low-paid workers, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution, unemployment traps, the demand for low-skilled workers, and the existence of monopsonistic competition.

Inhalt
Introduction; D.Meulders, R.Plasman & F.Rycx PART I: MINIMUM WAGES, LOW PAY AND JOB SATISFACTION Low Pay and the Minimum Wage in Ireland; D.O'Neill Mobility at the Bottom of the Italian Earnings Distribution; L.Cappellari Low Pay Mobility in the Swiss Labour Market; A.De Coulon & B.A.Zürcher Low Pay, Higher Pay, Earnings Mobility and Job Satisfaction in Britain; R.M.Leontaridi & P.J.Sloane PART II: LOW PAY AND UNEMPLOYMENT An Econometric Analysis of Unemployment Traps for Belgium; A.C.D'Addio, I.De Greef & M.Rosholm Outsourcing and the Demand for Low-skilled Labour: Exemplary Evidence from German Manufacturing Industries; I.Geishecker Monopsony and Employment Inflows a Microeconomic Analysis Based on a Panel of Belgian Firms; B.Mahy & I.Paindavoine