Product Description: This book takes a fresh look at the issue of job quality, analyzing employer behaviour and discussing the agenda for policy intervention. Between 1997 and 2002, more than twelve million new jobs were created in the European Union and labour market participation increased by more than eight million...read more

Product Description: Contributions to this volume review, in international perspective, the "European social model" of collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment rights, and social welfare support, which is seen as both cause and cure for joblessness and low-wage employment in Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Increasingly, the governments of virtually all industrialised countries are confronted with persistent problems of unemployment and low pay for those with little formal education and few skills. To combat this growing problem, various countries are utilising different remedies - usually with disappointing results...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work asks whether low wages help reduce unemployment and increase competitiveness in world markets. It also asks whether minimum wage legislation and collective bargaining are harmful to the efficient working of any economy. These issues are traced in the European context." (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)