Low paid employment is a key issue for labour market policy. The essays in this book, focusing on European countries, provide new empirical evidence regarding the impact of minimum wages on employment, earnings mobility among low paid workers, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution, unemployment traps, the demand for low skilled workers, and the existence of monopsonistic competition. LORENZO CAPPELLARI Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy ANNA CRISTINA D'ADDIO University of Aarhus, Belgium AUGSUTIN DE COULON Queen Mary, University of London, UK ISABELLE DE GREEF Universite Catholique de ouvain, Belgium INGO GEISHECKER DIW Berlin, Germany RANNIA M. LEONTARIDI University of Aberdeen, UK BENOT MAHY Universite de Mons-Hainaut DONAL O'NEILL NUI Maynooth, Ireland ISABELLE PAINDAVOINE Universite de Mons-Hainaut MICAHEL ROSHOLM Universite Catholique de ouvain, Belgium PETER J. SLOANE University of Wales, Swansea, UK BORIS A. ZRCHER Swiss State Secretaria for Economic Affairs, Switzerland

Low paid employment is a key issue for labour market policy. The essays in this book, focusing on European countries, provide new empirical evidence regarding the impact of minimum wages on employment, earnings mobility among low paid workers, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution, unemployment traps, the demand for low skilled workers, and the existence of monopsonistic competition. LORENZO CAPPELLARI Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy ANNA CRISTINA D'ADDIO University of Aarhus, Belgium AUGSUTIN DE COULON Queen Mary, University of London, UK ISABELLE DE GREEF Universite Catholique de ouvain, Belgium INGO GEISHECKER DIW Berlin, Germany RANNIA M. LEONTARIDI University of Aberdeen, UK BENOT MAHY Universite de Mons-Hainaut DONAL O'NEILL NUI Maynooth, Ireland ISABELLE PAINDAVOINE Universite de Mons-Hainaut MICAHEL ROSHOLM Universite Catholique de ouvain, Belgium PETER J. SLOANE University of Wales, Swansea, UK BORIS A. ZRCHER Swiss State Secretaria for Economic Affairs, Switzerland