Author: Damian Grimshaw Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136682198 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
With growing concern about the conditions facing low wage workers and new challenges to traditional forms of labor market protection, this book offers a timely analysis of the purpose and effectiveness of minimum wages in different European countries. Building on original industry case studies, the analysis goes beyond general debates about the relative merits of labor market regulation to reveal important national differences in the functioning of minimum wage systems and their integration within national models of industrial relations. There is no universal position on minimum wage policy followed by governments and social partners. Nor is it true that trade unions consistently support minimum wages and employers oppose them. The evidence in this book shows that interests and objectives change over time and differ across industries and countries. Investigating the pay bargaining strategies of unions and employers in cleaning, security, retail, and construction, this book’s industry case studies show how minimum wage policy interacts with collective bargaining to produce different types of pay equity effects. The analysis provides new findings of ‘ripple effects’ shaped by trade union strategies and identifies key components of an ‘egalitarian pay bargaining approach’ in social dialogue. The lessons for policy are to embrace an inter-disciplinary approach to minimum wage analysis, to be mindful of the interconnections with the changing national systems of industrial relations, and to interrogate the pay equity effects.
Author: Irene Dingeldey Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429688369 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
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: David Card Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691169128 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 454
Book Description
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: Gabriël Moens Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
Argues against the principle of equal pay for work of comparable worth, claiming it reduces employment opportunities for women, favours selective groups of female workers, and discriminates against unskilled workers. Includes a bibliography and an index. The authors teach law at the University of Queensland.
Author: D. McCann Publisher: Springer ISBN: 113738221X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 313
Book Description
The volume is at the forefront of the academic and policy debates on effective labour regulation, offering innovative approaches to research and policy. It is an interdisciplinary response to the central challenges that face modern labour regulation and draws on contributions by leading experts in a range of disciplines.
Author: B. O. Pettman Publisher: Hemisphere Pub ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
Monograph presenting a comparison of equal pay for the woman worker in the UK, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Federal Republic, Canada and Japan - comments on relevant national level labour legislation, and discusses the occupational structure, women's' attitudes, the education of women, vocational guidance, government policy, wages differentials by sex, obstacles to progress, etc. Graphs, references and statistical tables.
Author: Damian Grimshaw
Author: Irene Dingeldey
Author: Damian Grimshaw
Author: Jill Rubery
Author: David Card
Author: Australia. Department of Industrial Relations
Author: Edward Robert Livernash
Author: Gabriël Moens
Author: D. McCann
Author: B. O. Pettman