Chapter 17: Minimum wages: by collective bargaining and by law
This chapter gives a succinct but comprehensive overview of different ways of setting minimum wages in advanced capitalist democracies. The two fundamental options are to establish minimum wages by collective bargaining or by law. But the two options can overlap in different ways. The chapter first...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, UK
Edward Elgar Publishing
2023
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |
| Summary: | This chapter gives a succinct but comprehensive overview of different ways of setting minimum wages in advanced capitalist democracies. The two fundamental options are to establish minimum wages by collective bargaining or by law. But the two options can overlap in different ways. The chapter first presents variation in setting minimum wages by collective bargaining and then variation in statutory minimum wages. In the end it identifies four minimum wage regimes, distinguished by the degree to which minimum wages are based on collective bargaining or statutory law. Over time there has been a trend away from collective bargaining and towards statutory minimum wages. The chapter concludes with important topics for further research on minimum wages. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781800880887 9781800880887.00026 |
| Access: | Open Access |