Policy Measures for Low-Wage Employment in Europe

Edited by Wiemer Salverda, Co-ordinator, European Low-wage Employment Research Network (LoWER) and Director, European Labour Market Research Studies, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Claudio Lucifora, Professor of Labour Economics, Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy and Brian Nolan, Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford, UK

Policy Measures for Low-Wage Employment in Europe is a focused and up-to-date set of studies highlighting several important new findings. The book considers in-depth policy measures in the areas of taxation, benefits and employer subsidies aimed at the low-skilled and illustrates the limitations of short-term solutions. The policy debate is extended to encompass the role of product demand related to low-paid, low-skilled work and to the functioning of the labour market. In particular, the study investigates the role of job satisfaction and turn over in two major low-paying sectors – the retail trade and the hotel industry.