Readership: Academics working on labour economics, public policy, or social policy; public policy practitioners
Edited by Mary Gregory, Pauline Chan Fellow and Tutor in Economics, St Hilda's College, and University (CUF) Lecturer, University of Oxford, Wiemer Salverda, Director of European Labour Studies, University of Amsterdam, and Co-ordinator, European Low-wage Employment Research Network LoWER, and Stephen Bazen, Maitre de Conferences, Sciences Economiques, University Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda, and Stephen Bazen: Introduction 1: Claudio Lucifora: Wage inequalities and low pay: the role of labour market institutions 2: Andrew Glyn and Wiemer Salverda: Employment inequalities 3: Rita Asplund and Inga Persson: Low pay - a special affliction of women 4: Peter Sloane and Ioannis Theodossiou: Earnings mobility of the low-paid 5: Brian Nolan and Ive Marx: Low pay and household poverty 6: Stephen Bazen: Minimum wages and low-wage employment 7: Francis Kramarz: The French experience of youth employment programmes and payroll tax exemptions 8: Richard Freeman and Ronald Schettkat: Low-wage services: interpreting the US-German difference 9: Mary Gregory and Stephen Machin: The downside of trade or technological change? Explaining the deteriorating employment and wage position of the low-skilled 10: Lex Borghans and Andries de Grip: Skills and low pay: upgrading or over-education?
