Minimum wages in Central and Eastern Europe : from protection to destitution / edited by Guy Standing and Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead ; prepared by the International Labour Office Central and Eastern European Team (ILO-CEET), Budapest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Standing, Guy.

Contributor:

Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel.

International Labour Office. Central and Eastern European Team.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minimum wage--Europe, Eastern.

Minimum wage.

Minimum wage--Former Soviet republics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 1995.

Summary:

The essays in this book compare the situation about minimum wages in seven east-European countries and explore the depths of the minimum wage deprivation and the causes and consequences of this alarming development, while also recommending a series of reforms.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction

1 What Role for the Minimum Wage in the Flexible Labour Markets of the 21 st Century?

2. Minimum Wages in Central and Eastern Europe: Slippage 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 Industrialised Economies

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-003-72077-3

963-386-487-9

9781003720775

OCLC:

1295279044