Minimum Wage Regulations in Selected European Countries

Walter de Gruyter GmbH - Tập 41 - Trang 78-92 - 2006
Lothar Funk1, Hagen Lesch2
1University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany
2Head of the “Collective Bargaining Section”, Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW), Germany

Tóm tắt

The recent controversy over the EU Directive on Services has given new impetus to the debate on minimum wages. Which EU countries have regulations on minimum wages and to what extent do these regulations differ? Are they effective as an anti-poverty tool?