 Within- and Between-Firm Mobility in the Low-Wage Labour MarketIben Bolvig Chapter 6 in Job Quality and Employer Behaviour, 2005, pp 132-156 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The issue of working poor – that is, workers with an income below a threshold that would ensure a certain standard of living – has been a concern in the United States for a number of decades (see for example Wachtel and Betsey, 1972; Gittleman and Joyce, 1999). The widening of the wage distribution in most OECD countries has also increased the number of working poor and low-wage workers in Europe (see Gottschalk and Smeeding, 1997, for a survey of selected OECD countries and Andersen, 2003, for a study of changes in Danish wages during the 1990s), and therefore the issue of low-wage workers has received increased interest during the last decade in European labour research as well. The number of low-paid workers is not, however, in itself necessarily a cause for concern. If low-paid jobs are merely transitory occupations in the move up the earnings ladder then the effect on lifetime earnings will be small and the disutility minimal. However if they are dead-end jobs that are consistently held by a group of low-wage workers, these workers will be marginalized in terms of income. Keywords: Labour Market; High Wage; Destination State; Firm Characteristic; Duration Dependence (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37864-3_7 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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