Artikel
Low-wage employment
Low-wage employment has become an important feature of the labor market and a controversial topic for debate in many countries. How to interpret the prominence of low-paid jobs and whether they are beneficial to workers or society is still an open question. The answer depends on whether low-paid jobs are largely transitory and serve as stepping stones to higher-paid employment, whether they become persistent, or whether they result in repeated unemployment. The empirical evidence is mixed, pointing to both stepping-stone effects and "scarring" effects (i.e. long-lasting detrimental effects) of low-paid work.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2021 ; Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- Subject
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low-wage employment
wages
stepping stone
state dependence
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Schnabel, Claus
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2021
- DOI
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doi:10.15185/izawol.276.v2
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- Last update
- 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Associated
- Schnabel, Claus
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2021
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