The minimum wage revisited in the enlarged EU. / / edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead.

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.

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Place / Publishing House:Cheltenham, United Kingdom ;, Northampton, Massachusetts ;, Geneva, Switzerland : : Edward Elgar,, [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 544 p.) :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Minimum wage revival in the enlarged EU: explanatory factors and developments / Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
  • 2. Bulgaria: a shift in minimum wage policy / Vassil Tzanov
  • 3. Croatia: moving towards a more active minimum wage policy / Danijel Nestic
  • 4. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: minimum wages in a context of migration and labour shortages / Jaan Masso and Kerly Krillo
  • 5. France: towards the end of an active minimum wage policy? / Jérôme Gautié
  • 6. Germany: what role for minimum wages on low-wage work? / Gerhard Bosch and Thorsten Kalina
  • 7. Greece: neglect and resurgence of minimum wage policy / Eugenia Fotoniata and Thomas Moutos
  • 8. Hungary: the consequences of doubling the minimum wage / János Köllo
  • 9. Ireland: a successful minimum wage implementation? / Brian Nolan
  • 10. The Netherlands: minimum wage fall shifts focus to part-time jobs / Wiemer Salverda
  • 11. Poland: minimum wage, employment and labour migration / Jacek Wallusch
  • 12. Sweden: a minimum wage model in need of modification / Per Skedinger
  • 13. Turkey: minimum wage in tension between economic and social concerns / Seyhan Erdoðdu
  • 14. United Kingdom: developing a progressive minimum wage in a liberal market economy / Damian Grimshaw
  • 15. Towards an EU minimum wage policy? / Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead.