Minimum Wages, Low Pay and Unemployment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Minimum Wages, Low Pay and Job Satisfaction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Low Pay and the Minimum Wage in Ireland

      • Donal O’Neill

      Pages 3-26

   3. Mobility at the Bottom of the Italian Earnings Distribution

      • Lorenzo Cappellari

      Pages 27-56

   4. Low-pay Mobility in the Swiss Labour Market

      • Augustin de Coulon, Boris A. Zürcher

      Pages 57-86

   5. Low Pay, Higher Pay, Earnings Mobility and Job Satisfaction in Britain

      • Rannia M. Leontaridi, Peter J. Sloane

      Pages 87-140

3. Low Pay and Unemployment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. An Econometric Analysis of Unemployment Traps for Belgium

      • Anna Cristina D’Addio, Isabelle De Greef, Michael Rosholm

      Pages 143-175

   3. Outsourcing and the Demand for Low-skilled Labour: Exemplary Evidence from German Manufacturing Industries

      • Ingo Geishecker

      Pages 176-194

   4. Monopsony and Employment Inflows. A Microeconometric Analysis Based on a Panel of Belgian Firms

      • Benoît Mahy, Isabelle Paindavoine

      Pages 195-217

4. Back Matter

   Pages 218-227

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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.

• earnings
• econometrics
• employment
• labor market
• labour market
• microeconomics
• Minimum Wages
• mobility
• unemployment

LORENZO CAPPELLARI Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy ANNA CRISTINA D'ADDIO University of Aarhus, Belgium AUGSUTIN DE COULON Queen Mary, University of London, UK ISABELLE DE GREEF Université Catholique de ouvain, Belgium INGO GEISHECKER DIW Berlin, Germany RANNIA M. LEONTARIDI University of Aberdeen, UK BENOÎT MAHY Université de Mons-Hainaut DONAL O'NEILL NUI Maynooth, Ireland ISABELLE PAINDAVOINE Université de Mons-Hainaut MICAHEL ROSHOLM Université Catholique de ouvain, Belgium PETER J. SLOANE University of Wales, Swansea, UK BORIS A. ZÜRCHER Swiss State Secretaria for Economic Affairs, Switzerland

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