Minimum Wage Regimes

Author : Irene Dingeldey,Damian Grimshaw,Thorsten Schulten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429688362

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Minimum Wage Regimes by Irene Dingeldey,Damian Grimshaw,Thorsten Schulten Pdf

This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors’ strategies in the field of minimum wage policies. It asks which strategies and motives, namely free collective bargaining, fair pay and/or minimum income protection, are emphasised by social actors with respect to the regulation and adaptation of (statutory) minimum wages. Taking an actor-centered institutionalist approach, and employing cross-country comparative studies, sector studies and single country accounts of change, the book relates institutional and labour market settings, actors’ strategies and power resources with policy and practice outcomes. Looking at the key pay equity indicators of low wage development and women’s over-representation among the low paid, it illuminates our understandings about the importance of historical junctures, specific constellations of social actors, and sector- and country-specific actor strategies. Finally, it underlines the important role of social dialogue in shaping an effective minimum wage policy. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and policy-makers and practitioners in industrial relations, international human resource management, labour studies, labour market policy, inequality studies, trade union studies, European politics and political economy.

Author : Anonym
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783656158394

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Analysis of Minimum Wage Regimes Across Europe by Anonym Pdf

Document from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, University of Münster, language: English, abstract: 1. Definition of a "minimum wage" 2. How many countries do have a minimum wage regime across Europe? 3. How high are minimum wages across Europe? 4. Is there a trend towards the minimum wage across Europe? 5. The importance of minimum wages across Europe/ To how many people does a minimum wage apply across Europe? 6. Is the eastern European expansion of the EU a reason for the introduction of minimum wages across Europe? 7. Is a minimum wage regime favourable in economic and social terms? 8. Is there a legal right to gain a sufficient remuneration - a minimum wage? 9. How could a European perspective of a minimum wage regime look like? 10.Are there alternatives to a minimum wage? Further reading

Author : Lewis F Abbott
Publisher : Industrial Systems Research
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780906321669

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Statutory Minimum Wage Controls by Lewis F Abbott Pdf

Around the world, minimum wage controls have excluded low cost competitors from labour markets, hampered firms in reducing wage costs during trade downturns, and caused various industrial-economic inefficiencies as well as unemployment, poverty, and price rises. This study analyses national minimum wage fixing as a special form of political-economic protectionism ¿ the equivalent of tariff barriers to low cost imports. It sees it as violating Treaty of Rome and other basic guarantees of free trade and markets in labour services in Europe. The study contains a detailed critique of the recently established British national minimum wage fixing regime. CONTENTS: 1. MINIMUM WAGE CONTROLS & THEIR EFFECTS: AN OVERVIEW 2. MINIMUM WAGE CONTROL & DE-CONTROL IN PARTICULAR COUNTRIES 3. LEGAL ASPECTS OF MINIMUM WAGE CONTROL 4. MINIMUM WAGE CONTROL & UNEMPLOYMENT 5. THE EFFECTS OF MINIMUM WAGE CONTROLS ON EMPLOYERS & THE DEMAND FOR LABOUR 6. THE EFFECTS OF MINIMUM WAGE CONTROLS ON EMPLOYEES & THE SUPPLY OF LABOUR 7. THE EFFECTS OF MINIMUM WAGE CONTROLS ON INCOMES & WELFARE

Author : Irene Dingeldey,Damian Grimshaw,Thorsten Schulten
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429688355

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Minimum Wage Regimes by Irene Dingeldey,Damian Grimshaw,Thorsten Schulten Pdf

This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors’ strategies in the field of minimum wage policies. It asks which strategies and motives, namely free collective bargaining, fair pay and/or minimum income protection, are emphasised by social actors with respect to the regulation and adaptation of (statutory) minimum wages. Taking an actor-centered institutionalist approach, and employing cross-country comparative studies, sector studies and single country accounts of change, the book relates institutional and labour market settings, actors’ strategies and power resources with policy and practice outcomes. Looking at the key pay equity indicators of low wage development and women’s over-representation among the low paid, it illuminates our understandings about the importance of historical junctures, specific constellations of social actors, and sector- and country-specific actor strategies. Finally, it underlines the important role of social dialogue in shaping an effective minimum wage policy. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and policy-makers and practitioners in industrial relations, international human resource management, labour studies, labour market policy, inequality studies, trade union studies, European politics and political economy.

Author : Thorsten Schulten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3864988063

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Minimum wage regimes in Europe by Thorsten Schulten Pdf

Author : Lewis F. Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0906321220

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Statutory Minimum Wage Controls by Lewis F. Abbott Pdf

Around the world, minimum wage controls have excluded low cost competitors from labour markets, hampered firms in reducing wage costs during trade downturns, and caused various industrial economic inefficiencies as well as unemployment, poverty, and price rises. This study analyses national minimum wage fixing as a special form of political economic protectionism the equivalent of tariff barriers to low cost imports. It sees it as violating Treaty of Rome and other basic guarantees of free trade and markets in labour services in Europe. The widely used study contains a detailed critique of the recently established British national minimum wage fixing regime. Contents: 1. Minimum Wage Controls and their Effects: an Overview 2. Minimum Wage Control and De Control in Particular Countries 3. Legal Aspects of Minimum Wage Control 4. Minimum Wage Control and Unemployment 5. The Effects of Minimum Wage Controls on Employers and the Demand for Labour 6. The Effects of Minimum Wage Controls on Employees and the Supply of Labour 7. The Effects of Minimum Wage Controls on Incomes and Welfare

Author : Guy Van Gyes ,Thorsten Schulten
Publisher : ETUI
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : 9782874523731

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Wage bargaining under the new European Economic Governance by Guy Van Gyes ,Thorsten Schulten Pdf

Within the framework of the new European economic governance, neoliberal views on wages have further increased in prominence and have steered various reforms of collective bargaining rules and practices. As the crisis in Europe came to be largely interpreted as a crisis of competitiveness, wages were seen as the core adjustment variable for ‘internal devaluation’, the claim being that competitiveness could be restored through a reduction of labour costs. This book proposes an alternative view according to which wage developments need to be strengthened through a Europe-wide coordinated reconstruction of collective bargaining as a precondition for more sustainable and more inclusive growth in Europe. It contains major research findings from the CAWIE2 – Collectively Agreed Wages in Europe – project, conducted in 2014–2015 for the purpose of discussing and debating the currently dominant policy perspectives on collectively-bargained wage systems under the new European economic governance.

Author : Engelbert Stockhammer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137357939

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Wage-Led Growth by Engelbert Stockhammer Pdf

This volume seeks to go beyond the microeconomic view of wages as a cost having negative consequences on a given firm, to consider the positive macroeconomic dynamics associated with wages as a major component of aggregate demand.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9289711892

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Pay in Europe in the 21st Century by Anonim Pdf

The issue of wages has attracted particular attention at European level since the onset of the economic crisis. Changes in economic governance, notably within the European Semester, have prompted discussions on wage-setting mechanisms. While, overall, wage-bargaining regimes have remained relatively stable over time in many countries, the most substantial changes were seen in Member States facing more difficult economic circumstances. This report provides comparative time series on wage-bargaining outcomes across the EU Member States and Norway, discussing pay developments against the background of different wage-bargaining regimes and looks into the link between pay and productivity developments. It also investigates the different systems and levels of minimum wages in Europe at present, carrying out an accounting exercise through a hypothetical scenario of a minimum wage set at 60% of the median national wage (with some alternative scenarios as well for comparison) in order to benchmark and evaluate minimum wage levels and systems in Europe, and to discuss the possibilities and difficulties of coordination in this matter.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781464801167

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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, October 2013 by World Bank Pdf

The World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update is a comprehensive, twice-yearly review of the region's economies prepared by the East Asia and Pacific region of the World Bank.

Author : Luca Ratti,Elisabeth Brameshuber,Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509968732

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The EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages by Luca Ratti,Elisabeth Brameshuber,Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni Pdf

This book provides an all-encompassing and timely analysis of the EU regulatory framework deriving from the enactment of Directive 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages. In the first part, the book discusses the function of minimum wage policies in contemporary labour markets and the role of social partners and collective bargaining in governing minimum wage determinants and trends. The second part provides an article-by-article commentary of the Directive, including insights on crucial aspects such as the EU competence to intervene on wages, the concept of minimum wage adequacy, and the measurement and promotion of collective bargaining coverage. The third part assesses the impact of the Directive across the EU, focusing on the main systemic implications of the Directive as well as on the structural changes that Member States will need to implement. With contributions written by scholars and stakeholders from across Europe, the book sheds light on one of labour law's most fundamental objectives – to provide for adequate minimum wages. It is an invaluable resource for researchers, policy makers, trade unionists and employers' representatives.

Author : David Card,Alan B. Krueger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400880874

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Myth and Measurement by David Card,Alan B. Krueger Pdf

From David Card, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Alan Krueger, a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the minimum wage David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work that has important implications for public policy as well as for the direction of economic research, the authors put standard economic theory to the test, using data from a series of recent episodes, including the 1992 increase in New Jersey's minimum wage, the 1988 rise in California's minimum wage, and the 1990–91 increases in the federal minimum wage. In each case they present a battery of evidence showing that increases in the minimum wage lead to increases in pay, but no loss in jobs. A distinctive feature of Card and Krueger's research is the use of empirical methods borrowed from the natural sciences, including comparisons between the "treatment" and "control" groups formed when the minimum wage rises for some workers but not for others. In addition, the authors critically reexamine the previous literature on the minimum wage and find that it, too, lacks support for the claim that a higher minimum wage cuts jobs. Finally, the effects of the minimum wage on family earnings, poverty outcomes, and the stock market valuation of low-wage employers are documented. Overall, this book calls into question the standard model of the labor market that has dominated economists' thinking on the minimum wage. In addition, it will shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage in Washington and in state legislatures throughout the country. With a new preface discussing new data, Myth and Measurement continues to shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage.

Author : INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9220319489

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Global Wage Report 2020-21 by INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE. Pdf

This ILO flagship report examines the evolution of real wages around the world, giving a unique picture of wage trends globally and by region. The 2020-21 edition analyses the relationship of minimum wages and inequality, as well as the wage impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. The 2020-21 edition also reviews minimum wage systems across the world and identifies the conditions under which minimum wages can reduce inequality. The report presents comprehensive data on levels of minimum wages, their effectiveness, and the number and characteristics of workers paid at or below the minimum. The report highlights how adequate minimum wages, statutory or negotiated, can play a key role in a human-centred recovery from the crisis

Author : Fernando Ferrari-Filho,Liuz F. de Paula
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781802203981

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Central Banks and Monetary Regimes in Emerging Countries by Fernando Ferrari-Filho,Liuz F. de Paula Pdf

This book focuses on the recent trends of monetary policy in Latin America. It analyzes how the actions of central banks and the monetary regimes of some Latin American countries have affected the economic performance of these countries, mainly in response to the international financial crisis (IFC) and COVID-19 crisis.

Author : Daniel Clegg,Niccolo Durazzi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800880887

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Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies by Daniel Clegg,Niccolo Durazzi Pdf

Bringing together contributions from leading labour market policy scholars from across the globe, this state-of-the-art Handbook offers extensive and compelling analyses of labour market policy in advanced democracies. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.