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WELCOME TO THE SITE OF THE
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 will continue to April 2008. The work programme can be found here.
=== OBITUARY ANDREW GLYN 1943-2007 ===
It is my unfortunate duty to announce the extremely sad news that Andrew Glyn is no longer with us. He died peacefully and with his family around him on 22 December 2007. It was the end of a very quick process caused by an inoperable and very aggressive brain tumour which started to reveal itself at the LoWER/Equalsoc inequality conference of the end of September 2007.
His untimely death leaves his family and his many friends bereaved. During the illness Andrew remained as joyful as he always was. Andrew and I have been friends since the early 1970s and I praise myself lucky to have witnessed his kind cheerfulness over so many years - a most consistent and outstanding personal quality, and a very important reason that he will be sadly missed.
Back then he published (with Bob Sutcliffe) British Capitalism, Workers and the Profits Squeeze. The reputation this bestowed on him never changed his characteristic modesty, that inseparable companion of his cheerfulness. Last year he worked hard to write Capitalism Unleashed, once more the thought-provoking product of an independent mind, and again a sign that the times are changing, hopefully swinging the pendulum away from narrow-minded textbook economics. Between the two books lies a very productive life dedicated to the good causes of equality and justice and always attempting to let the scientific work be part of life more broadly.
In the LoWER network he has been a very good friend and encouraging colleague and a very reliable contributor from the start in 1995 and over the 12.5 years that have passed since. His interest and involvement in the earlier DEMPATEM and the recent Handbook projects was of great support to me. It is very sad that he has not been able to give his chapter on "The Functional Distribution and Inequality" the final touch himself. The network will commemorate Andrew at its concluding conference in Amsterdam, 18-19 April.
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.
=== TWO UPCOMING EVENTS ===
LoWER Workshop on JOB INSECURITY AND TRAINING
7-8 March 2008, Berlin School of Economics.
Organisers: Antje Mertens, Thomas Zwick and Wiemer Salverda.
Keynotes
Michael Burda Humboldt Universität Berlin
Temporary Employment
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Giorgio Brunello Università degli Studi di Padova
Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe
For programme, registration and information about travel and accommodation see here.
LoWER Conference on INSTITUTIONS, MARKETS AND EUROPEAN UNEMPLOYMENT REVISITED - WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? for 18-19 April 2008 at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies AIAS.
Contact persons: Ronald Schettkat and Wiemer Salverda.
The programme and registration will soon be available here.
For contact details see Membership page. The network coordinator, Wiemer Salverda, can also be contacted.
=== RECENT PUBLICATION ===
Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda and Ronald Schettkat, eds
Service Included? Services and the European-American Employment Gap
Princeton University Press, 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).
For the table of contents click here
=== RECENT EVENTS ===
Joint LoWER - EQUALSOC Special Conference on ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
Seville, 23-29 September 2007 (on invitation)
Organisers: Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan and Tim Smeeding.
Contributions were made by
Bjorklund and Jäntti, Blau and Kahn, Brandolini and Smeeding, Burkhauser and Couch, Burtless, Visser and Checchi, Davies, Esping-Andersen and Myles, Folbre, Freeman, Glyn, Gregory, Jencks, Jenkins and Van Kerm, Lane, Leigh, Lucifora and Salverda, Machin, McCarty and Pontusson, Nolan and Marx, Roemer, Van Praag and Ferrer-i-Carbonell, and Zimmermann and Kahanec. Discussants were Tony Atkinson, Susan Mayer, Steven Nickell and Eugene Smolensky.
Programme is available here.
The results will be published as the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality by OUP at the end of 2008.
LoWER Conference on Gender: WHAT WORKS FOR WOMEN ?
10 and 11 September in Volos, Greece
Organised by Mary Gregory, Miriam Beblo, Ioannis Theodossiou and Wiemer Salverda
Click here for more information about the conference.
LoWER Network Workshop on MIGRATION
CEP at London School of Economics, 20-21 April 2007.
Keynotes:
George Borjas (Harvard), Klaus Zimmermann (IZA), Emilio Reyneri (Bicocca) and Christian Dustmann (UCL)
Programme available here.
LoWER Network Workshop on MOBILITY
Université de Savoie, Annecy, FR in 1-2 December 2006.
Invited spreakers:
Markus Jäntti (IKI, Finland), Denis FOUGERE (CNRS, CREST, Paris), Daniele Checchi (U. di Milano) and Yves Fluckiger (U. de Genève)
LoWER ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2006
Aarhus School of Business, Sandbjerg Manor, Denmark; 28-30 April 2006
More information including papers presented can be found here
Keynotes Sheldon Danziger (U. of Michigan) and Julia Lane (NORC at University of Chicago)
=== RECENT PUBLICATIONS ===
LoWER Working Paper #12
The Impact of Employers on the Outcomes of Low-wage Workers by Julia Lane.
Two books
Ive Marx and Wiemer Salverda, eds,
Low-wage Employment in Europe: Perspectives for Improvement
ACCO, Leuven, 2005
Claudio Lucifora, Stephen Bazen and Wiemer Salverda, eds,
Job Quality and Employer Behaviour in the Service Sector
Palgrave, 2005
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
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