Wage inequalities and low pay: the role of labour market institutions / Claudio Lucifora -- Employment inequalities / Andrew Glyn and Wiemer Salverda -- Low pay: a special affliction of women / Rita Asplund and Inga Persson -- Earnings mobility of the low paid / Peter Sloane and Ioannis...

Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in Services and Employment, an international group of leading labor economists suggests quite a different explanation....

Using a large panel of employees from the New Earnings Survey, examines the subsequent earnings transitions of those who were in the lowest quintile of the earnings distribution in 1976. Traces the quintile earnings positions in 1984 and 1991 of three age groups of 1976 – the young, the...