Low - Wage Employment in Europe

Book : Low - Wage Employment in Europe

Author : * Mary Gregory * Stephen Bazen

Language : English

Library : Social Policy

Publish Place : USA

ISBN : 1 85898 932 9

Publish Date : 00 1998

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing,Inc.

Book Type : Book

Book Number : 3281

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Contents
List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Preface
1. Editors' Introduction
Stephen Bazen, Mary Gregory and Wiemer Salverda
PART ONE
INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS
2. Low-Paid Employment in France, Great Britain and the Netherlands
Stephen Bazen, Mary Gregory and Wiemer Salverda
3. Incidence and Evolution of Low-Wage Employment in the Netherlands and the United States, 1979-1989 Wiemer Salverda
4. Low-Paid Work andPoverty: A Cross-Country Perspective Ive Marx and Gerre Verbist
PART TWO
INDIVIDUAL COUNTRY EXPERIENCES
5. Low Pay, the Earnings Distribution and Poverty in Ireland, 1987-1994
Brian Nolan
6. Atypical Work as a Form of Low-Wage Employment in the German Labour Market
Holger Buch and Peter Rühmann
1. The Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Spain Juan J. Dolado, Florentine Felgueroso and Juan F. Jimeno
PART THREE
LOW PAY AMONG SCHOOL-LEAVERS
8. Sub-Minimum-Wage Employment, Earnings Profiles and Wage Mobility in the Low-Skill Youth Labour Market: Evidence from French Panel Data 1989-95 Didier Balsan, Said Hanchane and Patrick Werquin
9. Low Wages of School-Leavers of Vocational Education in the Netherlands
Wendy Smits and Ed Willems
Index