This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...

"As wealth inequality skyrockets and trade union power declines, the living wage movement has become ever more urgent for public policymakers, academics, and-most importantly-those workers whose wages hover close to the breadline. A real living wage in any part of the world is rarely its minimum...

Confronting crisis and precariousness in the European Union / Stefan Schmalz, Brandon Sommer and Antonio Loffredo -- Precariousness in the Eurozone : causes, effects and developments / Klaus Dörre -- The competitive architecture of european integration : European labour division, locational...