European Low-Wage Employment Research Network

The network and its related projects bring together some forty European researchers on low pay and low skills; minimum wages and employment; wage inequality and earnings mobility; intergenerational and intragenerational inequalities; gender, pay, part-time employment and skills; employment structure and quality; immigration and low pay; training and employment behaviour.
On this website you will find all information available about LoWER, it’s activities and membership, related projects and publications. The present activities continued to April 2008. With support of the EU for a new event in the same vein as the LOPSI project. The work programme can be found here.

OBITUARY ANDREW GLYN 1943-2007 by Wiemer Salverda

Obituaries by Bob Sutcliffe, Ed Miliband and David Soskice can be found in the Guardian and the Financial Times respectively. Another obituary was in Socialist Unity and a blog can be found at Crooked Timber.

RECENT EVENTS

See for detailed information the events page

LoWER Conference on
INSTITUTIONS, MARKETS AND EUROPEAN UNEMPLOYMENT REVISITED – WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

Joint LoWER – Russell Sage Foundation – AIAS Workshop
LOW-WAGE WORK IN EUROPE – CHANGING THE DEBATE?
University of Amsterdam, 18 April 2008.

LoWER Workshop on JOB INSECURITY AND TRAINING

7-8 March 2008, Berlin School of Economics.

Joint LoWER – EQUALSOC Special Conference on *ECONOMIC INEQUALITY Seville, 23-29 September 2007 (on invitation)

LoWER Conference on Gender: WHAT WORKS FOR WOMEN ?
10 and 11 September in Volos, Greece

The website is organised as follows:

• Aims gives a detailed description of LoWER’s aims and objectives and highlights recent work and publications.
• Members lists all participants and observers of the LoWER network as well as other researchers involved in the related projects. It also links to their websites and publications.
• Events lists the LoWER network’s seminars and conferences for both the future and the past.
• Publications features LoWER’s output of books, working papers and reports and the network’s newsletters.
• Projects gives an overview of work in different research projects (Benchmarking, DEMPATEM, Epicurus) that are related to the network, covering parts of the work plan.
• DEMPATEM serves as the homepage of the major related project on demand patterns and employment growth.
• Vacancies presents relevant research jobs openings in the LoWER context.
• Links brings you to other interesting and relevant organisations not affiliated to LoWER as participants.
• Conference papers and Work in Progress are participants or members only parts of the site.
• AIAS home, finally, links to the homepage of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies which hosts this LoWER website.

• For more information please contact:
  Dr. Wiemer Salverda
  Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies
  Plantage Muidergracht 12
  1018 TV Amsterdam
  The Netherlands
  Tel: +31 20 525 4199 Fax: +31 20 525 4301