Schack, Trine; Meekes, Jordy; Barreto, César; … - 2026
We study the incidence, sources, and dynamics of low-wage employment using harmonised linked employer …-employee administrative data from Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. We define low-wage employment … relative to the country-specific median hourly wage and examine how worker characteristics, firm-specific wage premia, wage …