1st Edition
Minimum Wages in Central and Eastern Europe From Protection to Destitution
188 Pages
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Central European University Press
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... Read more
Introduction, 1. What role for the Minimum Wage in the Flexible Labour Markets of the 21st Century?, 2. Minimum Wages in Central and Eastern Europe: Sl'ppage of the Anchor, 3. Minimum Wages in Russia: Fantasy Chasing Fact, 4. What Role for the Minimum Wage in the New Polish Labour Market?, 5. The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Hungarian Wages and Industrial Relations, 6. Have Minimum Wages Hit Employment in the Czech Transformation?, 7. Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining in Bulgaria, 8. The Role of the Minimum Wage in the Romanian Wage Structure, 9. The Minimum Wage and Impoverishment in the Republic of Moldova, 10. Minimum Wage Protection in Western Industrialized Economies
Biography
Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead is a senior economist at the International Labor Office in Geneva and a professor at Sciences Po in Paris.
