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Increasingly, the governments of virtually all industrialised
countries are confronted with persistent problems of unemployment
and low pay for those with little formal education and few skills.
To combat this growing problem, various countries are utilising
different remedies - usually with disappointing results.Policy
Measures for Low-Wage Employment in Europe is a focused and
up-to-date set of studies highlighting several important new
findings. The book considers in-depth policy measures in the areas
of taxation, benefits and employer subsidies aimed at the
low-skilled and illustrates the limitations of short-term
solutions. The policy debate is extended to encompass the role of
product demand related to low-paid, low-skilled work and to the
functioning of the labour market. In particular, the study
investigates the role of job satisfaction and turn over in two
major low-paying sectors - the retail trade and the hotel industry.
This book will prove a valuable contribution to the literature for
labour economists and policymakers at European and national level
and policy officers of trade union and employment organisations.
Those interested in labour market problems will also find the work
to be a fascinating read.
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and
challenging analysis of economic inequality, focusing primarily on
economic inequality in highly developed countries. Bringing
together the world's top scholars this comprehensive and
authoritative volume contains an impressive array of original
research on topics ranging from gender to happiness, from poverty
to top incomes, and from employers to the welfare state. The
authors give their view on the state-of-the-art of scientific
research in their fields of expertise and add their own stimulating
visions on future research. Ideal as an overview of the latest,
cutting-edge research on economic inequality, this is a must have
reference for students and researchers alike.
There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing
inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the
economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it. This has
been seen in popular discourse, media coverage, political debate,
and research in the social sciences. The central questions
addressed by this book, and the major research project GINI on
which it is based, are: - Have inequalities in income, wealth and
education increased over the past 30 years or so across the rich
countries, and if so why? - What are the social, cultural and
political impacts of increasing inequalities in income, wealth and
education? - What are the implications for policy and for the
future development of welfare states? In seeking to answer these
questions, this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach that
draws on economics, sociology, and political science, and applies
this approach to learning from the experiences over the last three
decades of European countries together with the USA, Japan, Canada,
Australia, and South Korea. It combines comparative research with
lessons from specific country experiences, and highlights the
challenges in seeking to adequately assess the factors underpinning
increasing inequalities and in identify the channels through which
these may impact on key social and political outcomes, as well as
the importance of framing inequality trends and impacts in the
institutional and policy context of the country in question.
Contributions to this volume review, in international perspective, the European social model of collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment rights, and social welfare support, which is seen as both cause and cure for joblessness and low-wage employment in Europe. They find that collective bargaining and minimum wages protect vulnerable workers, while wage flexibility is not economically effective in creating jobs for the low-skilled.
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