Chapter 17: Minimum wages: by collective bargaining and by law

• Autor principal: Picot, Georg (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Cheltenham, UK Edward Elgar Publishing 2023
• Assuntos: JHBL; Minimum wage; Collective bargaining; Mandatory extensions; Low-wage employment; Wage regulation; Social partners
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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...