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Employment regimes and the quality of work
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ISBN: 9780199230105 0199230102 0191710571 9780199566037 0199566038 1435618106 9786611150266 1281150266 0191552070 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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The book makes a major new contribution to the sociology of employment by comparing the quality of working life in European societies with very different institutional systems - France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain and Sweden. It focuses in particular on skills and skill development, opportunities for training, the scope for initiative in work, the difficulty of combining work and family life and the security of employment. Drawing on a range of nationally representative surveys, it reveals striking differences in the quality of work in different European countries. It also provides for the f

Minimum wages, low pay, and unemployment
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ISBN: 1403936420 134951859X Year: 2004 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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Low-paid employment is a key issue for labour market policy. The essays in this book, focusing on European countries, provide new empirical evidence regarding the impact of minimum wages on employment, earnings mobility among low-paid workers, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution, unemployment traps, the demand for low-skilled workers, and the existence of monopsonistic competition.

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