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Minimum Wage Regulations in Selected European Countries

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The recent controversy over the EU Directive on Services has given new impetus to the debate on minimum wages. Which EU countries have regulations on minimum wages and to what extent do these regulations differ? Are they effective as an anti-poverty tool?

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  1. University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Lothar Funk

  2. Head of the “Collective Bargaining Section”, Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW), Germany

    Hagen Lesch

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The authors wish to thank the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) and the contributing National Centres as well as, in particular, Mark Carley for their support and comments.

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Funk, L., Lesch, H. Minimum Wage Regulations in Selected European Countries. Intereconomics 41, 78–92 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-006-0178-3

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