List of Figures ............................................. ix
List of Tables .............................................. xi
Acknowledgments ........................................... xiii
1 Introduction and Plan of the Book ............................ 1
DAMIAN GRIMSHAW
PART I
Wage-Setting Institutions, Intersections and Pay Equity Effects
2 Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining: A Preliminary
Characterisation ............................................ 19
DAMIAN GRIMSHAW
3 The Intersections between Minimum Wage and Collective
Bargaining Institutions ..................................... 50
DAMIAN GRIMSHAW AND GERHARD BOSCH
4 The Distributive Functions of a Minimum Wage: First- and
Second-Order Pay Equity Effects ............................. 81
DAMIAN GRIMSHAW AND JILL RUBERY
PART II
Sector Case Studies
5 Business Cleaning: How Important and Effective are Minimum
Wage Standards in a Sector with Strong Cost-Led
Competition? ............................................... 115
CLAUDIA WEINKOPF, JOSEP BANYULS AND DAMIAN GRIMSHAW
6 Pay Bargaining and Cost Minimization in the Private
Security Services Sector: A Hungary-UK Comparison .......... 141
LÁSZLÓ NEUMANN AND DAMIAN GRIMSHAW
7 Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining in the
Construction Industry ...................................... 168
GERHARD BOSCH, DANIJEL NESTIĆ AND LÁSZLÓ NEUMANN
8 Wage Compression among Sales Assistants? Pay Bargaining
and Ripple Effects in the Retail Sector .................... 194
JOSEP BANYULS, DAMIAN GR1MSHAW, DANIJEL NESTIĆ AND LÁSZLÓ
NEUMANN
PART III
Conclusions
9 Minimum Wages and Egalitarian Pay Bargaining in
Comparative Perspective .................................... 227
DAMIAN GRIMSHAW, GERHARD BOSCH AND JILL RUBERY
List of Contributors ....................................... 261
Index ...................................................... 263
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