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9780230233324

The Minimum Wage Revisited in the Enlarged Eu

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230233324

  • ISBN10:

    0230233325

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This book assesses the renewed interest in the minimum wage in Europe, identifying concrete effects of minimum wage fixing on employment, low pay, wage disparity, collective bargaining and migration, through a series of case studies in 15 EU countries.

Author Biography

DANIEL VAUGHAN-WHITEHEAD is Senior Advisor at the International Labour Office, Switzerland. He has managed many international projects on social issues and is the author of many books and articles on wages, industrial relations, social dumping, workers participation and social policies in general. He played a key advisory role in transition countries from Central and Eastern Europe in the early 1990s and then put this experience at the service of the European Commission in the recent EU enlargement process. He returned to the ILO in 2004, where he is today responsible for wages and working conditions around the world.

Table of Contents

Minimum Wage Revival in the Enlarged EU: Explanatory factors and developments--D.Vaughan-Whitehead
Bulgaria: A Shift in Minimum Wage Policy--V.Tzanov
Croatia: Moving Towards a More Active Minimum Wage Policy--D.Nestic
Estonia: Latvia and Lithuania : Minimum Wages in a Context of Migration and Labour Shortages--J.Maas & K.Krillo
France: Towards the End of an Active Minimum Wage Policy?--J.Gauti
Germany: What Role for Minimum Wages on Low-wage Work?--G.Bosch
Greece: Neglect and Resurgence of Minimum Wage Policies--E.Fotoniata &--T.Moutos
Hungary: The Consequences of Doubling the Minimum Wage--J.Kllo
Ireland: A Successful Minimum Wage Implementation?--B.Nolan
The Netherlands: Minimum Wage Fall Shifts Focus to Part-time Jobs--W.Salverda
Poland: Minimum Wage, Employment and Labour Migration--J.Wallusch
Sweden: A Minimum Wage Model in Need of Modification?--P.Skedinger
Turkey: Minimum Wage in Tension Between Economic and Social Concerns--S.Erdogdu
United Kingdom: Developing a Progressive Minimum Wage in a Liberal Market Economy; D.Grimshaw
Towards an EU Minimum Wage Policy?--D.Vaughan-Whitehead











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