Product Description: From the contents: The economics of skills obsolence: a review (A. de Grip, J. van Loo). - When do skills become obsolete, and when does it matter? (J. Allen, R. van der Velden). - The obsolescence of skill (F. Welch, M. Ureta). - Age effect and schooling vintage effect on earnings profiles inSwitzerland (J...read more

Product Description: This collection of papers considers how people who are low paid can be given better opportunities in the British labour market. Topics considered include how the workings of the tax and benefits systems might be improved, and why some jobs are low paid in the first place.