Policy Measures for Low - Wage Employment in Europe

Book : Policy Measures for Low - Wage Employment in Europe

Author : * Claudio Lucifora * Wiemer Salverda

Language : English

Library : Social Policy

Publish Place : USA

ISBN : 1 84064 410 9

Publish Date : 00 2000

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing,Inc.

Book Type : Book

Book Number : 3280

INDEX


Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables List of Contributors
The Lo WER Network
1. Introduction
Wiemer Salverda, Claudia Lucifora and Brian Nolan
PART ONE TAXES, BENEFITS AND SUBSIDIES
2. Micro-Level Impacts of Low-Wage Policies in Europe Cathal O'Donoghue and Francesco Utili
3. Financial Incentives to Take up Low-Paid Work: An International Comparison of the Role of Tax and Benefit Systems Marco Doudeijns, Marcel Einerhand and Arthur van de Meerendonk
4. Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies: The Case of 'SPAK'
in the Netherlands
Peter Mühlau and Wiemer Salverda
5. Fighting Unemployment without Worsening Poverty: Basic Income versus Reductions of Social Security Contributions Bruno Van der Linden
PART TWO LONG-RUN POLICY ISSUES OF LOW PAY
6. Competitive and Segmented Labour Markets and Exclusion from Retirement Income Gerard Hughes and Brian Nolan7. From Childhood Poverty to Labour Market Disadvantage: Chan] in the Intergenerational Transmission of Social Exclusion Abigail McKnight
PART THREE DEMAND FOR LOW-PAID LABOUR
8. Industrial Change, Stability of Relative Earnings and Substitutio of Unskilled Labour in West Germany
Viktor Steiner and Robert Mohr
9. Recent Findings on Trade, Technology and Wage Inequality Jonathan E. Haskel
10. Strategies to Promote Regular Employment in Services to Privat Households: Current Policy Experience
Claudia Weinkopf
11. Job Satisfaction and Labour Turnover in the Retail and Hotel Sectors
Donna Brown and Steven McIntosh
Index