Low Pay and Earnings Mobility in Europe

Edited by Rita Asplund, Research Director, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Finland, Peter Sloane, Emeritus Professor, Swansea University, UK, Adjunct Professor, Flinders University, Australia and Research Fellow, IZA, Bonn, Germany and Ioannis Theodossiou, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Aberdeen, UK

• Contents: Foreword Introduction: Low Pay and Earnings Mobility 1. Methodological and Econometric Issues in the Measurement of Low Pay and Earnings Mobility Part I: Low-Paid Employment: The Long-Run Horizon 2. Earnings Mobility in the Italian Economy 3. Long-Term Earnings Mobility of Low-Paid Workers in Finland 4. Low-Wage Mobility in a Working-Life Perspective Part II: Low-Paid Employment: The Short-Run Horizon 5. Wage Mobility for Low-Wage Earners in Denmark and Finland 6. An Econometric Analysis of Low Pay and Earnings Mobility in Britain 7. The Earnings Mobility of Low-Paid Workers in Britain Part III: Low-Paid Employment: Some Further Perspectives 8. Low Pay, A Matter of Occupation 9. The Effects of Unemployment on Future Earnings 10. Working Poor? An Analysis of Low-Wage Employment in Italy 11. Wage Growth of Low – and High-Skilled Workers in the Netherlands Part IV: Low-Paid Employment in the OECD Countries: An International Comparison 12. The Incidence and Dynamics of Low-Paid Employment in OECD Countries

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