European Low-Wage Employment Research Network

DEMPATEM

Demand Patterns and Employment Growth: Consumption and Services in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States

The DEMPATEM project started in July 2001 and ended December 2003.

UPCOMING PUBLICATION

Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda and Ronald Schettkat, eds

Service Included? Services and the European-American Employment Gap

was published by Princeton University Press in May 2007.

The book brings together contributions by William Baumol, Richard Freeman, Victor Fuchs and Robert Gordon with the output of the DEMPATEM project (contributions by Blow, Deelen, Gardes, Glyn, Kalwij, Luengo-Prado, Machin, Möller, Russo, Ruiz-Castillo, Schmitt, Sollogoub, Starzec and the three editors).

A series of 13 working papers can be found here

A State-of-the-art Review “DEMPATEM in Perspective” is downloadable here

The main results were presented to an international audience at a

High-level Scientific Conference in Seville, Spain, 17-18 October 2003.

Click here for the program. Click here for the participants list.

Keynote speakers were Tony Atkinson, Robert Gordon and Richard Freeman.

The synopsis of the project can be viewed and downloaded here

The workplan can be viewed and downloaded here

The final report to the European Commission can be found here

Partners of the project were:
Co-ordinators

  • “Wiemer SALVERDA ":http://www.uva-aias.net/lower.asp?id=64&lang=en
    AIAS Amsterdams Institute for Advanced Labour Studies
    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • “Ronald SCHETTKAT ":http://www.wiwi.uni-wuppertal.de/Ronald_Sch.683.0.html
    now at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, then at Utrecht University, Netherlands

Participating Researchers

  • Laura BLOW

    Institute for Fiscal Studies, London
  • François GARDES and Michel SOLLOGOUB

    Théorie et Applications en Microéconomie et Macroéconomie TEAM, Université de Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
  • Andrew GLYN

    Department of Economics and Corpus Christi College

    Oxford University, United Kingdom
  • Mary GREGORY

    Department of Economics and St Hilda’s College

    Oxford University, United Kingdom
  • Adriaan KALWIJ

    Formerly Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies and Oxford University, recently University of Tilburg
  • Steve MACHIN

    University College London and CEP Centre for Economic Performance, United Kingdom
  • Javier RUIZ-CASTILLO

    Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
  • María José LUENGO, Spain

    Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
  • Giovanni RUSSO, Marijke van DEELEN and Joep DAMEN

    University of Utrecht, Netherlands
  • John SCHMITT

    Economic Policy Institute Washington, United States
  • Joachim MÖLLER

    Universität Regensburg, Germany
  • 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