Title: Policy Measures for Low Wage Employment in Europe
Abstract: Part 1 Taxes, benefits and subsidies: micro-level impacts of low wage policies in Europe, Cathal O'Donoghue and Francesca Utili financial incentives to take up low-paid work - an international comparison of the role of tax and benefit systems, Marco Doudeijins, Marcel Einerhand and Arthur van de Meerendonk employment effects of low-wage subsidies - the case of SPAK in the Netherlands, Peter Muhlau and Wiemer Salverda fighting unemployment without worsening poverty - basic income versus reductions of social security contributions, Bruno van der Linden. Part 2 Long-run policy issues of low pay: competitive and segmented labour markets and exclusion from retirement income, Gerard Hughes and Brian Nolan from childhood poverty to labour market disadvantage - changes in the intergenerational transmission of social exclusion, Abigail McKnight. Part 3 Demand for low-paid labour: industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labour in West Germany, Viktor Steiner and Robert Mohr recent findings on trade, technology and wage inequality, Jonathan E. Haskel and Matthew J. Slaughter strategies to promote regular employment in services to private households, current policy experience, Claudia Weinkopf a look at job satisfaction and labour turnover in the retail and hotel sectors, Donna Brown and Steven Mcintosh.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: preprint
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