Orwell in Context: Communities, Myths, Values

by Ben Clarke

Book Overview

Lowpaid employment is a key issue for labour market policy. The essays in this book, focusing on European countries, provide new empirical evidence regarding the impact of minimum wages on employment, earnings mobility among lowpaid workers, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution, unemployment traps, the demand for lowskilled workers, and the existence of monopsonistic competition.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230517692
• ISBN13: 9780230517691
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.7"