Piotr Lewandowsky: Compliance with Minimum Wage Laws in Central and Eastern European countries
Channel: HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS)
Date: 2017-07-25

Regulation without enforcement has failed to protect vulnerable workers. Studies in Central and Eastern Europe explain how this happens, and what polices can address the problem. Piotr Lewandowski explains how better enforcement leads to better compliance with minimum wage laws. 

(0:08) Compliance of Minimum Wages Policies Across Central and Eastern Europe
(0:52) Minimum Wage Policy Fails the Most Vulnerable
(1:44) Problems Facing Enforcement
(2:18) Problems to Help Enforcement?

Piotr is Chief Economist and co-founder of the Structural Research Institute (IBS) in Poland. The IBS is part of the World Bank’s Network for Jobs Development. He presented his paper “Minimum Wage Violation in Central and Eastern Europe” and “Temporary Employment Boom in Poland – a Job Quality Quantity Trade-Off?” at the Jobs and Development Conference, 2016. The conference was organized by the World Bank Jobs Group, and featured partners from the Network for Jobs and Development.

Find his papers, and others, here: http://jobsanddevelopmentconference.org/