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The Dutch story / Robert Solow -- The debate in the Netherlands on low pay / Wiemer Salverda, Maarten van Klaveren, and Marc van der Meer -- Low-wage work and the economy / Wiemer Salverda -- Labor market institutions, low-wage work, and job quality / Wiemer Salverda -- The position, design, and methodology of the industry studies / Maarten van Klaveren -- The retail industry : the contrast of supermarkets and consumer electronics / Maarten van Klaveren -- Hotels : industry restructuring and room attendants' jobs / Ria Hermanussen -- Health care : integrated quality care sheltered from cost control? / Marc van der Meer -- Call center employment : diverging jobs and wages / Maarten van Klaveren and Wim Sprenger -- The food industry : meat processing and confectionary / Arjen van Halem -- Labor market institutions and firm strategies that matter for the low-paid / Wiemer Salverda ... [et al.]

"Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy World builds on an earlier Russell Sage Foundation study (Low-Wage America) to compare the plight of low-wage workers in the United States to five European countries - Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom - where wage supports, worker protections, and social benefits have generally been stronger. By examining low-wage jobs in systematic case studies across five industries, this international study goes well beyond standard statistics to reveal national differences in the quality of low-wage work and the well-being of low-wage workers."--Jacket

"Low-Wage Work in the United Kingdom explains why the current level of low-paying work remains one of the highest in Europe. The authors argue that the failure to deal with low pay reflects a policy approach which stresses reducing poverty, but also centers on the importance of moving people off benefits and into work, even at low wages. The UK government has introduced a version of the U.S. welfare to work policies and continues to stress the importance of a highly flexible and competitive labor market. A central policy theme has been that education and training can empower people to both enter work and to move into better paying jobs. Low-Wage Work in the United Kingdom illustrates the way that the interactions between government policies, labor market institutions, and the economy have ensured that low pay remains a persistent problem within the United Kingdom."--BOOK JACKET.

Abstract:This article provides a global overview of trends in low pay and policies for reducing its incidence. The special issue it introduces follows up on "Low‐wage work in Europe and the United States" (Vol. 148 (2009), No. 4), the focus here being on Brazil, China, India, the Republic of Korea and South Africa. After examining the definition and estimation of low pay, the authors give particular attention to two policies accounting for variations in cross‐country trends: collective bargaining and minimum wages. To address low pay effectively, they argue, minimum wages must be set within a certain range on account of threshold effects.