| |
 |
| Ethische Perspectieven |
|
| Maart - Nummer : 1/1995 |
| |
| Centrum voor Economie en Ethiek - KU Leuven : 'Can Low-Productivity Jobs Be Decent ? Labour Market Reform and the Long-Time Unemployed' |
| John Sweeney |
| |
Pagina : 40 - 42 |
|
| |
John SWEENEY, Can Low-Productivity Jobs Be Decent? Labour Market Reform and the Longterm Unemployed. Centrum voor Economie en Ethiek, February, 1995, 53 p.
In this paper I explore the options that are currently open to, or being proposed for, the least skilled in the European Union’s workforce. It is part of a doctoral project at the Center for Economics and Ethics on the issue of long-term unemployment. In more detail, he is examining the relative merits of income transfers on their own (a guaranteed minimum income), different types of sheltered employment (the social economy, a new tier to the public sector), and wage subsidies in the open economy, for low-productivity workers as paths to social justice and economic efficiency.
The project seeks to answer whether lowproductivity jobs should actually be fostered by public policy. Low-productivity jobs mean those jobs the contribution of which to an employer’s value-added (their marginal revenue productivity) is at or below what the employer is obliged (under trade union agreements or minimum wage legislation) to pay the workers who perform them, or which is below what the workers can receive as their social welfare entitlement. Clearly, they are jobs which it is either not viable for an employer to provide or rational for a worker to hold. Is seeking to extend the labour ladder further down in this way flying in the face of economic efficiency and expressed social wants? |
|
 53,28 Kb |
|
|
|
|
Recentste uitgave
19 (2009) 3 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
