Download or read book Minimum Wages in Central and Eastern Europe written by Guy Standing and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1980s, incomes have fallen sharply in most countries of Central and Eastern Europe, while unemployment and poverty rates have risen dramatically. In most countries during that period, the statutory minimum wage has been supposed to be an anchor of the social protection system and the wage structure, protecting the low-paid and those dependent on state benefits. Unfortunately for those affected, the level of the minimum wage has been allowed to drop to well below the "poverty level" and has ceased to protect anyone. This book considers the evidence and the implications of this development, and recommends a series of reforms.
Download or read book Minimum Wage in Central and Eastern Europe written by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minimum Wage Violation in Central and Eastern Europe written by Karolina Goraus-Tanska and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimum wages continue to be at the centre of the policy debates in both developed and emerging economies. Such policies can only be effective if (1) the existing regulatory system does not have gaps that allow for the payment of wages below the minimum wage, and (2) the existing minimum wage laws are not violated (too often). In this paper we analyse minimum wage violations in 10 Central and Eastern European countries that have joined the EU since 2004, and that have statutory national minimum wages. Utilising EU-SILC data, we use the methodology proposed by Bhorat et al. (2013) to analyse both the incidence of minimum wage violations, as well as the monetary depth of these violations.We find that on average in 2003-2012, the estimated incidence of violations ranged from 1.0% in Bulgaria, to 1.3% in the Czech Republic, around 3% in Romania and Slovenia, 4.7% in Poland and Hungary, 5.6% in Latvia, and 6.9% in Lithuania. The average pay shortfall ranged from 13.7% of the country-year specific minimum wage in Estonia, to 41.7% in Slovenia. In all countries, workers who were female, less-educated, in the service or agricultural sector, in a micro firm, or with a temporary contract were more likely than other categories of workers to earn less than the minimum wage they were entitled to. While higher minimum to average wage ratios were associated with higher levels of non-compliance, this effect was present within countries over time, but not between them.
Download or read book Cross Country Report on Minimum Wages written by International Monetary Fund. European Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides a cross-country report on minimum wages. In the past few years, many countries in Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) have increasingly turned to minimum wage policies. Throughout the region, statutory minimum wages had been in place at least since the early 1990s, but they were typically set at relatively moderate levels and affected relatively few workers. Minimum wages have risen sharply relative to both average wages and labor productivity. Minimum wages often affect relatively more workers in CESEE than in Western Europe. Governments are the key players in the minimum wage determination in CESEE countries.
Download or read book The Role of the State in Central and Eastern European Industrial Relations written by Heribert Kohl and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments in Central and Eastern Europe are dominant players in the field of industrial relations, acting in a liberalization dilemma between the needs of further state regulation to compensate the shortcomings of autonomous self-regulation by social actors and the demands of liberalized markets in the enlarged EU. Compared with the different types of industrial relation systems in Western Europe, a transitional model with specific etatist features has emerged. This becomes particularly evident when analyzing the decision-making process in Tripartite Councils and its function in determining national minimum wages. The article underlines the recent trends of differentiation and convergence of such pay principles as well as urgent tasks of the state to regulate the unsolved problems of poverty, labor markets and labor standards.
Download or read book Analysis of Minimum Wage Regimes Across Europe written by Anonym and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, University of Münster, language: English, abstract: 1. Definition of a "minimum wage" 2. How many countries do have a minimum wage regime across Europe? 3. How high are minimum wages across Europe? 4. Is there a trend towards the minimum wage across Europe? 5. The importance of minimum wages across Europe/ To how many people does a minimum wage apply across Europe? 6. Is the eastern European expansion of the EU a reason for the introduction of minimum wages across Europe? 7. Is a minimum wage regime favourable in economic and social terms? 8. Is there a legal right to gain a sufficient remuneration - a minimum wage? 9. How could a European perspective of a minimum wage regime look like? 10.Are there alternatives to a minimum wage? Further reading
Download or read book Reforming Wage Policy in Central and Eastern Europe written by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contours of a European Minimum Wage Policy written by Thorsten Schulten and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minimum wage regimes in Europe written by Thorsten Schulten and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Role Can Minimum Wages Play in Overcoming the Low wage Model in Central and Eastern Europe written by Jan Drahokoupil and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changes in the Wage Structure During Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe written by Jan J. Rutkowski and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper No. 336. Presents the results of consultative surveys undertaken in 36 rural and urban communities across Nigeria. The study examines the effectiveness and accountability of local institutions in local decisionmaking and participation, as well as some common limitations such as the narrowness of membership and goals and their limited technical and managerial capacities.
Download or read book Wage bargaining under the new European Economic Governance written by Guy Van Gyes and published by ETUI. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the framework of the new European economic governance, neoliberal views on wages have further increased in prominence and have steered various reforms of collective bargaining rules and practices. As the crisis in Europe came to be largely interpreted as a crisis of competitiveness, wages were seen as the core adjustment variable for ‘internal devaluation’, the claim being that competitiveness could be restored through a reduction of labour costs. This book proposes an alternative view according to which wage developments need to be strengthened through a Europe-wide coordinated reconstruction of collective bargaining as a precondition for more sustainable and more inclusive growth in Europe. It contains major research findings from the CAWIE2 – Collectively Agreed Wages in Europe – project, conducted in 2014–2015 for the purpose of discussing and debating the currently dominant policy perspectives on collectively-bargained wage systems under the new European economic governance.
Download or read book Paying the Price written by International Labour Office and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written by a working group of the region's leading wage experts, provides the first ever assessment of wage policies in postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe which was jointly carried out by the ILO and the European Commission. For the first fame, evidence is presented which proves restrictive wage policies did not stimulate the creation of a market economy, while leading to a dramatic fall in living standards and to the growth of poverty. The evolution of wage levels and wage structure since 1989 is described and a direct assessment provided of wage policies in the first years of the reforms in terms of both social protection and economic efficiency, underpinned by the most recent data.
Download or read book Changes in the Wage Structure During Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe written by Jan J. Rutkowski and published by World Bank Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minimum Wage Regimes written by Irene Dingeldey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors’ strategies in the field of minimum wage policies. It asks which strategies and motives, namely free collective bargaining, fair pay and/or minimum income protection, are emphasised by social actors with respect to the regulation and adaptation of (statutory) minimum wages. Taking an actor-centered institutionalist approach, and employing cross-country comparative studies, sector studies and single country accounts of change, the book relates institutional and labour market settings, actors’ strategies and power resources with policy and practice outcomes. Looking at the key pay equity indicators of low wage development and women’s over-representation among the low paid, it illuminates our understandings about the importance of historical junctures, specific constellations of social actors, and sector- and country-specific actor strategies. Finally, it underlines the important role of social dialogue in shaping an effective minimum wage policy. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and policy-makers and practitioners in industrial relations, international human resource management, labour studies, labour market policy, inequality studies, trade union studies, European politics and political economy.
Download or read book Minimum Wages as a Barrier to Entry written by Ronald Bachmann and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses employers' support for the introduction of industry-specific minimum wages as a cost-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 firms in the German service sector, we show that high-productivity employers support minimum wages. We further find some evidence that minimum wage support is higher in industries and regions with low barriers to entry. This is particularly the case in East Germany, where the perceived threat of low-wage competition from Central and Eastern European countries is relatively high. In addition, firms paying collectively agreed wages are more strongly in favour of minimum wages.
Download or read book Structural Change in Central and Eastern Europe written by Georg Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
