Focuses on country systems for regulating low-wage work.

This paper provides evidence that from 1985 to 2005, two thirds of OECD countries have seen an increase in earnings inequality. In nearly half of these countries, the widening was driven by an increase in inequality at both the top and the bottom of the distribution. In the other half, rising...

Analyses which types of labour market flexibility and security combinations - "flexicurity" - are advantageous and who benefits.

Explores good practices in industrial relations and collective bargaining in the chemical industry.