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Routledge Handbook of European Welfare Systems; Sonja Blum,
Johanna Kuhlmann, Klaus Schubert; Routledge International; 2019
Published ten years after the first edition, this new Handbook
offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all 28
EU member states and their recent reforms, giving the reader an invaluable
introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. Additional chapters
provide detailed information on EU social policy, as well as comparative
analyses of European welfare systems and their reform pathways. For this
second edition, all chapters have been updated and substantially revised, and
Croatia additionally included. The second edition of this Handbook is most
timely, given the often-fundamental welfare state transformations against the
background of the financial and economic crises, transforming social policy
ideas, as well as political shifts in a number of European countries. The book sets
out to analyse these new developments when it comes to social policy. In the
first part, all country chapters provide systematic and comparable information on the foundations of the
different national welfare systems and their characteristics. In the second part, using a joint conceptual
foundation, they focus on policy changes (especially of the last two decades) in different social policy areas,
including old-age, labour market, family, healthcare, and social assistance policies. As the comparative chaptersconclude, European welfare system landscapes have been in constant motion in the last two decades. While
austerity is not to be seen on the aggregate level, the in-depth country studies show that all policy sectors have
been characterised by different reform directions and ideas. The findings not only reveal both change and
continuity, but also policy reversal as a distinct type that characterises social policy reform. The book provides a
rich resource to the international welfare state research community, and is also useful for social policy teaching.
Restoring the Middle Class through Wage Policy: Arguments for a
Minimum Wage; Oren M. Levin-Waldman; Palgrave Macmillan; 2018
This book delivers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the
issue of the minimum wage. While most discussions of the minimum wage place
it at the center of a debate between those who oppose such a policy and argue
it leads to greater unemployment, and those who favor it and argue it improves
the economic well-being of low-income workers, Levin-Waldman makes the
case for the minimum wage as a way to improve the well-being of middle-
income workers, strengthen the US economy, reduce income inequality, and
enhance democracy. Making a timely and original contribution to the defining
issues of our time the state of the middle class, the problem of inequality, and
the crisis of democratic governance Restoring the Middle Class through Wage
Policy will be of interest to students and researchers considering the impact of
such approaches across the fields of public policy, economics, and political science.
Towards Convergence in Europe: Institutions, Labour and Industrial
Relations; Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (ed.); Edward Elgar; 2019
This book aims to answer a number of important questions. To
what extent have European countries converged or diverged with EU-wide
economic and social indicators over the past 20 years? What have been the drivers
of convergence? Why do some countries lag behind, while others experience
continuous upward convergence? Why are these trajectories not always linear?
Particular attention is paid to the role of institutions, actors and industrial
relations focusing on the resources and strategies of governments, employers
and trade unions in nudging EU countries onto an upward convergence path.
Living Wages Around the World: Manual for Measurement; Richard Anker
and Martha Anker; Edward Elgar; 27 January 2017
This manual describes a new methodology to measure a decent
but basic standard of living in different countries and how much workers need to
earn to afford this, making it possible for researchers to estimate comparable living
wages around the world and determine gaps between living wages and prevailing
wages, even in countries with limited secondary data.EBOOK CHAPTERS
The minimum wage in a global context; Peter Brosnan in: The Handbook
of Globalisation, Third Edition; Jonathan Michie (ed.); Edward Elgar; 2019
The past 30 years are often depicted as an era of globalisation,
and even more so with the recent rise of global giants such as Google and
Amazon. This updated and revised edition of The Handbook of Globalisation
offers novel insights into the rapid changes our world is facing, and how best we
can handle them.
Promoting fair wages and labour taxes; in: Good Jobs for All in a
Changing World of Work: The OECD Jobs Strategy; OECD Publishing; 2019
While productivity growth is a pre-condition for rising
standards of living it does not automatically translate into higher wages and
better working conditions for workers. This chapter discusses the role of
minimum wages, collective bargaining and labour taxation for promoting a
broad sharing of productivity gains. Wage-setting institutions can help avoid
that the proceeds of productive labour disproportionately go to capital, but
also risk pricing low-productivity workers out of the market. To increase their
effectiveness and mitigate any potentially adverse employment effects, a
good coordination of wage-setting institutions with the system of labour
taxation is crucial. This will also help to limit the adverse effects of labour
taxation on labour market outcomes.
Income support policies for the working poor; Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx,
Gerlinde Verbist; and Impacts of the living wage on in-work poverty; Amy
Horton, Jane Wills; in: Handbook on In-Work Poverty; Henning Lohmann, Ive
Marx (eds.); Edward Elgar; 2018
There has been a rapid global expansion of academic and
policy attention focusing on in-work poverty, acknowledging that across the
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disciplinary perspective, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of
current research at the intersection between work and poverty.Labor Policy for a Diverse and Diversifying World of Work; in:
Protecting All: Risk Sharing for a Diverse and Diversifying World of Work;
Palacios, David Robalino and Indhira Santos; The World Bank; 2019; pp.
133-190
Emphasizes the importance of new ideas to motivate and
inform a new generation of labor market policies better suited to a diverse
and diversifying world of work. Drivers of disruption technological change
and economic integration, in particular are challenging the primacy of the
archetypal standard employer-employee relationship as a formal institution,
and social, demographic, and climate changes are reconfiguring the
composition of the workforce and the geography of work. Five key
implications of these disruptions for labor market policies include (1) a rising
premium on adaptability; (2) the need for labor market policies that reflect a
diverse and fluid world of work; (3) the role of governments to help people manage labor market transitions and
dislocation; (4) the continued requirement of targeted interventions; and (5) the continued importance of
measures that give all working people greater voice. Labor market reforms have taken countries in different
directions, with many high-income countries liberalizing and many low- and middle-income countries
increasing restrictions.
The European Trade Union Movement and the Issue of Statutory
Minimum Wages; in: Trade Union Cooperation in Europe; Bengt Furåker,
Bengt Larsson; Palgrave Pivot; 2020; pp. 75-107
Most countries in Europe have minimum wage legislation,
but there are some exceptions such as the Nordic countries. The issue has clearly
divided European trade unions and Nordic unions represent a foothold for the
resistance to this kind of regulation. To provide a more detailed picture of
European lab
legislation, data from interviews and surveys as well as documents are used.
There is obviously a deep cleavage within the European trade union movement
and the chapter also describes how the ETUC has handled the diverging
positions.
Minimum wages for online labor platforms?: Regulating the global gig
economy; Alex J. Wood, Mark Graham, Mohammad Amir Anwar; in: The
Digital Transformation of Labor: Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare;
Anthony Larsson, Robin Teigland (eds.); Routledge; 2019
constitute a global remote gig economy, enable clients to access worldwide labor
power. This chapter discusses how these platforms work. Two hundred and fifty
remote gig economy workers across ten countries and four continents have been
interviewed along with platform CEOs and government and trade union officials.
Moreover, a survey encompassing 679 Asian and African workers has been
conducted in addition to an analysis of transaction data and observation studies.
The authors conclude by cautioning against having online gig work function as
an unregulated labor market and propose some suggestions to improve
relationships and conditions between the employing class, the governing class and the working class.Ethics and, in, and for Labor Markets; Michael S. McPherson, Debra Satz;
in: The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics; Mark D. White (ed.);
Oxford University Press; 2019
Publis The fact that labor markets have endogenous effects, that
labor contracts are incomplete, and that workers and owners have some
conflicting interests, distinguishes them from other types of markets such as
markets in wheat or gadgets. In this chapter, we explore the consequences of the
special nature of labor markets for three specific issues: unemployment, the rise
of the gig economy, and the nature and organization of work in a just society.
Each of these issues involves the complex interplay of economic considerations
with ethics, which implicate considerations such as freedom and coercion,
inequality and fairness, and efficiency and productivity.
Article 4 -The Right to a Fair Remuneration; Zoe Adams, Simon Deakin; in:
The European Social Charter and Employment Relation; Niklas Bruun, Klaus
Lörcher, Isabelle Schömann, Stefan Clauwaert (eds.); Bloomsbury Publishing;
2017; pp. 198-219;
Introduction by the authors: Article 4 is a rare example of an international
human rights standard that addresses the core right to a decent minimum level of
remuneration. The Article protects a number of complementary aspects of this
female workers to equal pay on the basis of work of equal value; the right to
reasonable notice prior to termination; and the right to protection against
arbitrary deductions from pay. The core right is the first, from which the others are
in essence derived. However, and despite its crucial importance in practice for all
wage and salary earners, this right has proved to be controversial throughout its history. 1 This is for several
reasons, but above all because the right is defined in instrumental terms: the wage must be such as to bring
defined.
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> La revendication du Living Wage : renouveau militant, négociation collective ou responsabilité
sociale des entreprises ?; Jacques Freyssinet; Chronique Internationale de l'IRES; 2019/2 (N° 166)
salaire pour vivre décemment », resurgit
au Royaume-Uni au début des années ar des mouvements sociaux, la
du Living Wage. La combinaison des deux démarches est source de tensions entre les organisations de
la société civile et le mouvement syndical.
> (Un)beliveable wages? An analysis of minimum wage policies in Europe from a living wage
perspective; Brian Fabo, Sharon Sarah Belli; IZA Journal of Labor Policy; 2017; Vol. 6;
Article number: 4
Abstract by the authors: Minimum wage is one of the most debated issues in the labour policy area.
Often perceived as a trade-off between employment and equality in earnings, the debate on minimum
wage is highly polarized. With regard to the undergoing discussions on the Social Pillar of the European
integration, we aim to extend the debate to include the aspect of minimum living standards, by
empirically showing the gap between minimum wages and the minimum living wages in the peripheral
countries of the European Union.
> Back to basics: Does a Minimum Wage Help Workers?; International Monetary Fund.
Communications Department; Finance & Development, Vol. 56(1); Mar 2019; p. 64
Abstract: Almost every country has a minimum wage. The details vary: some countries, such as France,
fix a universal minimum across the economy, while others, such as New Zealand and South Africa,
differentiate between sectors and types of workers. Typically, the minimum wage is set by the
government and revised periodically in consultation with business and labor organizations.
Minimum wages have been justified on moral, social, and economic grounds. But the overarching
objective is to boost incomes and improve the welfare of workers at the low end of the ladder, while also
reducing inequality and promoting social inclusiveness. Critics counter that rather than improving
welfare, minimum wages are counterproductive because they disrupt the market for labor. They argue
that there are other, better-targeted, and less distortionary ways to provide social assistance.
> The Minimum Wage as a Matter of Tangible Human Dignity: A Comparative Constitutional Law
Analysis; Isabelle Martin, Maude Choko; International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and
Industrial Relations; 2018; Vol. 34(3); pp. 231 255
Abstract by the authors: The right to human dignity has been applied to numerous employment
issues: loss of reputation, privacy, sexual and psychological harassment.Human dignity has less often
been invoked in litigation involving tangible working conditions such as the minimum wage. These
questions have traditionally been dealt with by employment legislation rather than human rights law.
This article argues that minimum wage issues are also a matter of human dignity. In this respect, the
adequacy and sufficiency of minimum wage regulations could be assessed in the light of the right to
human dignity. In particular, we will examine minimum wage regulations in Quebec (Canada) with
regard to the right to human dignity as laid down in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and
Freedoms.
In order to substantiate the relationship between the minimum wage and human dignity, we intend to
make use of comparative constitutional law. We will draw on the interpretation and application of
human dignity developed in international law as well as in four jurisdictions: Quebec, Canada, Israel
and Germany. Although Quebec and Canadian case law has applied human dignity to work issues, they
have not developed its application to tangible working conditions. By comparison, international law,
together with Israeli and German law, have developed the tangible dimension of dignity more
extensively. These sources of law may help address the lack of attention on the part of the Quebec courtsto the tangible dimension of dignity at work. We then turn to the Quebec minimum wage regulations
to evaluate their sufficiency and adequacy in the light of the right to human dignity.
> The End of the Subordinate Worker? The On-Demand Economy, the Gig Economy, and the Need
for Protection for Crowdworkers; Adrián Todolí-Signes; International Journal of Comparative
Labour Law and Industrial Relations; 2017; Vol. 33 (2); pp. 241-268
Abstract by the author: The digital era has changed industrial relations dramatically, giving rise to
considerable legal uncertainty about the rules that apply in cyberspace. Technology is transforming
business organization in a way that makes the employee as a salaried worker less necessary. A new type
individual service providers is emerging. These companies base their core business entirely on workers
classified as selfemployed workers. In this connection, employment law is facing its greatest challenge,
dealing with a very different reality compared to the one that existed when it came into being. However,
workers still need protection, and this article examines the reasons for this claim.
> Mindestlohnbeschäftigte: Dienstleister für den privaten Konsum oder Teilhaber am Exporterfolg?;,
H. Brautzsch, B. Schultz; Wirtschaftsdienst, 2019; Vol. 99, pp. 76 78
From the introduction:
Arbeitnehmer beschäftigt. Sie produzier-ten vor allem Güter für den Konsum, für Investitionen in
Ausrüstungen und Bauten sowie den Export, aber auch Vorleistungsgüter, die als Bestandteil der
Wertschöp-fungsketten indirekt in deren Entstehung eingingen. Hier ist wirtschafts- und lohnpolitisch
interessant, in welchen quantitativen Verhältnissen der Einsatz der Beschäftigten in der
Vorleistungsgüterproduktion zur Endverwendung im Wirtschaftskreislauf steht. Dieses Interesse richtet
sich nicht nur auf die Personenzahl, sondern im Besonderen auch auf deren Entlohnung. Ein Augenmerk
> Mindestlohn-Umgehungen fordern Kontrollbehörden und Politik heraus; T. Pusch;
Wirtschaftsdienst; 2019; Vol. 99; pp. 483 489.
Abstract by the author: Seit der Einführung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns erhalten Berichte zu
dessen Umsetzung und Einhaltung eine hohe Aufmerksamkeit. Bisher erschienene Studien zeigten
dabei kein eindeutiges Bild über den Umfang der Mindestlohn-Umgehungen. Im vorliegenden Beitrag
werden die Gründe für die teilweise sehr unterschiedlichen Ergebnisse herausgearbeitet. Neue Daten der
Verdiensterhebung und zusätzliche Auswertungen mit dem SOEP-Datensatz zeigen, dass die
Umgehungen nach der ersten Erhöhung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns Anfang 2017 wieder
zugenommen haben. Das Beispiel Großbritannien macht deutlich, dass es Möglichkeiten gibt, den
Mindestlohn besser einzuhalten.
> : salaire minimum, science économique et débat public aux États-Unis, en
France et au Royaume-Uni (1890-2015); Jérôme Gautié; Revue économique; 2018/1; Vol. 69; pp. 67-
109
Cet article retrace les débats économiques autour du salaire minimum depuis
la fin du xixe siècle aux États-Unis, en France et au Royaume-Uni (et son Commonwealth), dans leurs
intègre aussi une approche de sociologie historique des sciences, visant à recontextualiser ces débats en
: la sphère politique,
la sphère administrative et la sphère de la société civile et du monde économique et social. Trois périodes
sont distinguées : autour de la première guerre mondiale, des années 1940 aux années 1980, et depuis
le début des années 1990.
> Youth minimum wages and youth employment; M. Marimpi, P. Koning; IZA Journal of Labor Policy;
2018/7.
Abstract: This paper performs a cross-country level analysis on the impact of the level of specific youth
minimum wages on the labor market performance of young individuals. We use information on the use
and level of youth minimum wages, as compared to the level of adult minimum wages as well as to themedian wage (i.e., the Kaitz index). We complement these data with variables on the employment, labor
force participation, and unemployment rates of 5-year age interval categories all derived from the
official OECD database. We distinguish between countries without minimum wages, countries with
uniform minimum wages for all age groups, and countries with separate youth and adult minimum
wages. Our results indicate that the relative employment rates of young individuals below the age of
25 as compared to the older workers in countries with youth minimum wages are close to those in
countries without minimum wages at all. Turning to the smaller sample of countries with minimum
wages, increases in the level of (youth) minimum wages exert a substantial negative impact on the
employment rate for young individuals.
> Is a Minimum Wage an Appropriate Instrument for Redistribution?; Aart Gerritsen, Bas Jacobs;
Economica; 18 September 2019;
Abstract: We analyse the redistributional (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation
in competitive labour markets without imposing assumptions on the (in)efficiency of labour rationing.
Compared to a distributionally equivalent tax change, a minimum‐wage increase raises involuntary
unemployment, but also raises skill formation as some individuals avoid unemployment. A minimum
wage is an appropriate instrument for redistribution if and only if the public revenue gains from
additional skill formation outweigh both the public revenue losses from additional unemployment and
the utility losses of inefficient labour rationing. We show that this critically depends on how labour
rationing is distributed among workers. A necessary condition for the desirability of a minimum‐wage
increase is that the public revenue gains from higher skill formation outweigh the revenue losses from
higher unemployment. We write this condition in terms of measurable sufficient statistics.
> Employment Gains from Minimum-Wage Hikes under Perfect Competition: A Simple General-
Equilibrium Analysis; Richard A. Brecher, Till Gross; Review of International Economics; Feb. 2018,
Vol. 26 (1); pp. 165-70
Abstract by the authors: Contrary to conventional wisdom, higher minimum wages may lead to
greater levels of employment under perfect competition. We demonstrate this possibility in a simple
general-equilibrium model of involuntary unemployment, with two goods produced by two factors and
consumed by two representative households. Within our model, hiking a minimum wage redistributes
income between heterogeneous consumers. This redistribution may create an excess demand for the
labor-intensive good, and hence increase total employment to restore equilibrium, despite the fact that
every firm becomes less labor intensive.
> Industry Dynamics and the Minimum Wage: A Putty-Clay Approach; Daniel Aaronson, Eric French,
Isaac Sorkin, Ted To; International Economic Review, Feb. 2018, Vol. 59 (1); pp. 51-84
Abstract by the authors: We document two new findings about the industry-level response to
minimum wage hikes. First, restaurant exit and entry both rise following a hike. Second, there is no
change in employment among continuing restaurants. We develop a model of industry dynamics based
on putty-clay technology that is consistent with these findings. In the model, continuing restaurants
cannot change employment, and thus industry-level adjustment occurs gradually through exit of labor-
intensive restaurants and entry of capital-intensive restaurants. Interestingly, the putty-clay model
matches the small estimated short-run disemployment effect of the minimum wage found in other
studies, but produces a larger long-run disemployment effect.
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STATISTICS
> Minimum wage statistics; Eurostat; data extracted in February 2020.
This article illustrates how minimum wage levels vary considerably across the European Union (EU)
Member States; it also provides a comparison with the situation in the UK, the candidate countries and
the United States.
> Eurostat minimum wages tables: Monthly minimum wages and Monthly minimum wage as a
proportion of average monthly earnings (%).
> OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics (database); OECD (2020): Minimum wages relative
to median wages, Nominal minimum wages and Real minimum wages.
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