The minimum wage revisited in the enlarged EU
By: edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
Contributors: International Labour Office
Publisher: Edward Elgar; International Labour Office
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA; Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9789221219873; 9781849800150
Description: Analyses minimum wage developments in the last ten years or so in 14 of the EU-27 countries and in Turkey. Considers the role of increased mobility of goods and services, capital and labour, and the issue of harmonization between individual member States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Minimum wage revival in the enlarged EU: explanatory factors and developments / Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead; title: 2. Bulgaria: a shift in minimum wage policy / Vassil Tzanov; title: 3. Croatia: moving towards a more active minimum wage policy / Danijel Nestic; title: 4. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: minimum wages in a context of migration and labour shortages / Jaan Masso and Kerly Krillo; title: 5. France: towards the end of an active minimum wage policy? / Jérôme Gautié; title: 6. Germany: what role for minimum wages on low-wage work? / Gerhard Bosch and Thorsten Kalina; title: 7. Greece: neglect and resurgence of minimum wage policy / Eugenia Fotoniata and Thomas Moutos; title: 8. Hungary: the consequences of doubling the minimum wage / János Köllo; title: 9. Ireland: a successful minimum wage implementation? / Brian Nolan; title: 10. The Netherlands: minimum wage fall shifts focus to part-time jobs / Wiemer Salverda; title: 11. Poland: minimum wage, employment and labour migration / Jacek Wallusch; title: 12. Sweden: a minimum wage model in need of modification / Per Skedinger; title: 13. Turkey: minimum wage in tension between economic and social concerns / Seyhan Erdoðdu; title: 14. United Kingdom: developing a progressive minimum wage in a liberal market economy / Damian Grimshaw; title: 15. Towards an EU minimum wage policy? / Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead.