Minimum Wages, Low Pay and Unemployment [Paperback]

Low-paid employment is a key issue for labour market policy. The essays in this book, focusing on European countries, provide new empirical evidence regarding the impact of minimum wages on employment, earnings mobility among low-paid workers, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution, unemployment traps, the demand for low-skilled workers, and the existence of monopsonistic competition.Introduction; D.Meulders, R.Plasman & F.Rycx PART I: MINIMUM WAGES, LOW PAY AND JOB SATISFACTION Low Pay and the Minimum Wage in Ireland; D.O'Neill Mobility at the Bottom of the Italian Earnings Distribution; L.Cappellari Low Pay Mobility in the Swiss Labour Market; A.De Coulon & B.A.Z?rcher Low Pay, Higher Pay, Earnings Mobility and Job Satisfaction in Britain; R.M.Leontaridi & P.J.Sloane PART II: LOW PAY AND UNEMPLOYMENT An Econometric Analysis of Unemployment Traps for Belgium; A.C.D'Addio, I.De Greef & M.Rosholm Outsourcing and the Demand for Low-skilled Labour: Exemplary Evidence from German Manufacturing Industries; I.Geishecker Monopsony and Employment Inflows a Microeconomic Analysis Based on a Panel of Belgian Firms; B.Mahy & I.PaindavoineLORENZO CAPPELLARI Universita del Piemonte Orientale, ItalyANNA CRISTINA D'ADDIO University of Aarhus, BelgiumAUGSUTIN DE COULON Queen Mary, University of London, UKISABELLE DE GREEF Universit? Catholique de ouvain, BelgiumINGO GEISHECKER DIW Berlin, GermanyRANNIA M. LEONTARIDI University of Aberdeen, UKBENO?T MAHY Universit? de Mons-HainautDONAL O'NEILL NUI Maynooth, IrelandISABELLE PAINDAVOINE Universit? de Mons-HainautMICAHEL ROSHOLM Universit? Catholique de ouvain, BelgiumPETER J. SLOANE University of Wales, Swansea, UKBORIS A. Z?RCHER Swiss State Secretaria for Economic Affairs, Switzerland