„Living wages“ oder Armutslöhne? Ziele einer europäischen Mindestlohnpolitik

Thorsten Schulten

WSI-Mitteilungen, 2016, vol. 69, issue 1, 70-72

Abstract: Despite the fact that many European countries have had statutory minimum wages for a long time, the phenomenon of the working poor is still rather widespread. Minimum wages are often set at a relatively low level and are de facto poverty wages. More recently, however, many countries have seen the emergence of living wage initiatives aiming at the introduction of minimum wages that are above the subsistence level. Against that background a European minimum wage policy would have the task of coordinating the national initiatives at European level and defining joint norms and objectives to make sure that all minimum wages in Europe become living wages.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2016-1-70

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